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  • Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations

    Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (2008) Vol. 30, No. 2 pages 161-180 DOI: 10.1177/0739986307313116 Irene López, Assistant Professor of Psychology Kenyon College The following is a historically informed review of Puerto Rican phenotype. Geared toward educating psychologists, this review discusses how various psychological issues associated…

  • Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru

    Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru Race & Class (2008) Vol. 49, No. 4 pages 1-21 DOI: 10.1177/0306396808089284 Felipe Arocena (farocena@fcs.edu.uy), Professor of Sociology Universidad de la República-Uruguay The different strategies of resistance deployed by discriminated ethnic groups in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia are analysed here. In Brazil, Afro movements and indigenous populations are increasingly…

  • Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy

    Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy The American Historical Review 2005 Volume 110, Number 2 Saliha Belmessous, Research Fellow of History University of Syndey Although the idea of race is increasingly being historicized, its emergence in the context of French colonization remains shadowy. This is despite the fact that colonization was…

  • Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid?

    Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid? Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 25, Issue 2 (May 1993) pages 373-386 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X00004703 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University In the last two decades the comparative analysis of race relations in the U.S.A. and Brazil has…

  • Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition

    Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition Theory, Culture & Society Volume 18, Numbers 2-3 (June 2001) pages 219-245 DOI: 10.1177/026327640101800211 Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Take just about any exercise in social mapping and it is the hybrids, those that…

  • The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale

    The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale Journal of Black Psychology 2001 Vol. 27, No. 1 pages 86-99 DOI: 10.1177/0095798401027001005 Charmain F. Jackman University of Southern Mississippi William G. Wagner, Professor University of Southern Mississippi J. T. Johnson University of Southern Mississippi The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale (AMCS) was developed to measure adults’ attitudes concerning…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review)

    Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review) Pychiatric Services May 2003 Volume 54 Page 751 Published by The American Psychiatric Association Maureen Slade, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Brendan Slade-Smith Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks,…

  • Barack Obama’s Improbable Election and the Question of Race and Racism in Contemporary America

    Barack Obama’s Improbable Election and the Question of Race and Racism in Contemporary America Journal of Black Studies January 2010 Volume 40, No. 3 Guest Editor Pamela D. Reed, Assistant Professor of English Composition and Africana Literature Virginia State University The Journal of Black Studies has now issued two special issues on President Barack Hussein…

  • Fluid…: Identity in the Making

    Fluid…: Identity in the Making The Vermont Connection Journal The University of Vermont 2002-07-29 Amiko Matsumoto I get the “what are you” question a lot. I usually get a warning that the question is coming: a tilt of the head, a squint of the eyes, a puzzled look as the wheels turn in my questioner’s…

  • Sci fi offers surprising insights on race

    Sci fi offers surprising insights on race The Brandeis Hoot Brandeis University 2009-03-06 Marissa Lainzi Months and months of wading through red ink, volleying e-mails, coordinating, coordinating, and coordinating came to fruition for the Mixed Heritage Club on Friday night, as their much-anticipated speaker, Eric Hamako, gave the talk, “Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else?” a…