Category: Articles

  • Distributed intensities: Whiteness, mestizaje and the logics of Mexican racism Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-401 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372305 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University By analysing racist moments, this article engages with debates about the existence of racism in Mexico and how whiteness, as an expression of such racism,…

  • An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege (review) Libraries & the Cultural Record Volume 45, Number 3, 2010 E-ISSN: 1932-9555 Print ISSN: 1932-4855 pages 375-377 Nena Couch, Curator and Professor of Theater Ohio State University The life of the librarian seldom is acknowledged beyond the confines of the community in…

  • Trading Races: Joseph and Marie Bunel, a Diplomat and a Merchant in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue and Philadelphia Journal of the Early Republic Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2010 pages 351-376 E-ISSN: 1553-0620 Print ISSN: 0275-1275 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Based on extensive research in French, British, and…

  • Bicultural Identity Formation of Second-Generation Indo-Canadians Canadian Ethnic Studies Volume 40, Number 2, 2008 pages 187-199 E-ISSN: 1913-8253 Print ISSN: 0008-3496 Pavna Sodhi, Ed.D, CCC Abundant Living Counselling Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada This article examines the bicultural identity formation and cultural experiences internalized by second-generation Indo-Canadians in their efforts to accommodate the “best of both…

  • Sandweiss unearths a compelling tale of secret racial identity News at Princeton Princeton University 2009-12-17 Jennifer Greenstein Altmann For three decades, history professor Martha Sandweiss had wondered about a little-noticed detail in the life of Clarence King, a well-known figure in the history of the American West. King, a 19th-century geologist and author, was a…

  • The Effect of Interracial Media Portrayals on Perceptions of Multiracialism XULAneXUS: Xavier University of Louisiana’s Undergraduate Research Journal Research Manuscript Volume 5, Number 1, April 2008 9 pages Ashley E. Winston Department of Psychology The notion that context has an effect on perceptions of multiracialism was investigated. Context was manipulated in terms of exposure to…

  • Mapping race: Multiracial people and racial category construction in the United States and Britain Immigrants & Minorities Volume 15, Issue 2 (July 1996) pages 107-119 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.1996.9974883 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara The social construction of what are often called ‘racial’ categories has proceeded differently in different places. The…

  • American Lives: The ‘Strange’ Tale Of Clarence King National Public Radio 2010-08-18 Steve Inskeep, Host Morning Edition U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library Ada Copeland, an African-American woman born in Georgia just months before that state seceded from the Union, moved to New York City in the mid-1880s. There, she met a man named James Todd.…

  • Mixed Messages, Mixed Memories, Mixed Ethnicity: Mnemonic Heritage and Constructing Identity Through Mixed Parentage New Zealand Sociology Volume 25, Number 1 (2010) pages 75-99 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This article explores the concept of mixed ethnic identity from a social memory-based perspective. Drawing on the…

  • The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the US Population: Emerging American Identities Population and Development Review Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2009) pages 1-51 DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00260.x Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in…