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  • Identity A Challenge For Latinas Who Are Black

    When people think of famous Latina women, Jennifer Lopez or Sofia Vergara come to mind. Not Zoe Saldana or Rosario Dawson…

  • Dominican, Black, and Afro-Latino: A Confession/Dominicano, Negro, y Afro-Latino: Una Confesión

    “What? Black people in the Dominican Republic?” Yes amig@*, there are Black Dominican people whose ancestors descend from the African motherland. However, the question is not so much, “Are there Black people in the Dominican Republic?” as it is “Are Dominican people Black?”

  • The Relationship of Identity to the Organizational Development of FLECHAS: Perceptions of Race from a Puerto Rican Perspective

    The Relationship of Identity to the Organizational Development of FLECHAS: Perceptions of Race from a Puerto Rican Perspective The Forensic Examiner June 2015 Raul A. Avila The Puerto Rican preoccupation with “whitening” and incidents of black racism obfuscate Puerto Rican identity. The “deliberate amnesia” regarding their genetic and cultural connection with Black African slaves compels…

  • How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts

    How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts University of California Press January 2014 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520280076 Paperback ISBN: 9780520280083 Adbobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520957190 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520957190 Natalia Molina, Associate Dean for Faculty Equity, Division of Arts; Humanities and Associate Professor of History and…

  • Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial

    Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial TIME Magazine 2016-01-28 Carey Wallace Study suggests it’s because they’re considered “intriguing.” One of the fastest growing racial groups in the country isn’t a single racial group–it’s people from multiracial backgrounds, the children of interracial unions. A new study has found however, that…

  • The Role of Gender, Class, and Religion in Biracial Americans’ Racial Labeling Decisions

    Racial attachments are understood to be socially constructed and endogenous to gender, socioeconomic, and religious identities. Yet we know surprisingly little about the effect of such identities on the particular racial labels that individuals self-select. In this article, I investigate how social identities shape the racial labels chosen by biracial individuals in the United States,…

  • Race Policy and Multiracial Americans

    “Race Policy and Multiracial Americans” is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans.

  • The Audacity to be Black

    The Audacity to be Black The Chicago Maroon: The independent student newspaper of The University of Chicago since 1892. 2016-01-18 Vincente Perez The word African American masks the political strife and oppression that comes with the word Black. “Black is hurt. Black is pain. Black is strong. Black is Love Worked hard and long Black…

  • Who’s Hispanic? Who’s Filipino?

    Who’s Hispanic? Who’s Filipino? The Multiracial Activist: Covering news of interest to multiracial individuals and interracial couples since 1997. 2016-01-15 Emily Monroy A few years ago, I wrote an essay called ‘Who’s White?’ I asked this question about several individuals, both famous (controversial shooter George Zimmerman) and not-so-famous (two boyfriends of mine). I ended the…

  • Bendición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera

    Bendición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera Arte Público Press 2014-11-30 346 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-800-8 Tato Laviera (1950-2013) Introduction by: Laura Lomas Preface by: Nicolás Kanellos “i think in spanish / i write in english / i want to go back to puerto rico / but I wonder if my kink could live /…