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  • Trayvon Martin and Making Whiteness Visible

    If there’s one good thing to come out of the George Zimmerman verdict, it’s the acknowledgement of white privilege

  • Race Remixed? — Probationary Whites and a Racism Reality Check

    Race Remixed? — Probationary Whites and a Racism Reality Check Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2011-30-28 (Updated July 2013) Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York This is an update to the original article, “Race Remixed?” from March 28, 2011. Update July 2013: In the wake of Trayvon Martin…

  • Zimmerman, Whiteness and Latinos

    Zimmerman, Whiteness and Latinos ABC News/Univision 2013-07-18 Leticia Alvarado, Assistant Professor of American Studies Brown University Saturday night bore a particularly saturated darkness, tinged by the news of George Zimmerman’s acquittal of all charges in connection to the death of not-yet-man-not-quite-child Trayvon Martin. A range of single-word status updates overtook my various social media feeds…

  • Gladys Zimmerman, Mother Of George Zimmerman, Says Her Family Is ‘Proudly Afro-Peruvian,’ But Do His Black Roots Matter In Trayvon Martin Case?

    Gladys Zimmerman, Mother Of George Zimmerman, Says Her Family Is ‘Proudly Afro-Peruvian,’ But Do His Black Roots Matter In Trayvon Martin Case? Latin Times New York, New York 2013-07-15 David Iaconangelo As protests mount against the verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, the question of how the public ought to see Zimmerman’s racial background…

  • Mixed Chicks Chat with Professor Rudy Guevarra

    Mixed Chicks Chat with Professor Rudy Guevarra Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #261: Rudy Guevarra When: Wednesday, 2012-06-20, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation,…

  • In Florida, a Death Foretold

    In Florida, a Death Foretold The New York Times 2012-03-31 Isabel Wilkerson In the mid-1930s, a Yale anthropologist ventured to an unnamed town in the South to explore the feudal divisions of what we commonly call race but what he preferred to describe with the more layered language of caste. When he arrived — white,…

  • Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone

    “Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone” tackles the hidden yet painful issue of colorism in the African American and Mexican American communities.

  • Redefining la raza

    Redefining la raza U.S. Catholic 2011-07-06 Father Tom Joyce, CMF There use to be an unspoken pattern to Hispanic migration to the United States: Mexicans drifted to Los Angeles or South Texas, Puerto Ricans—soon followed by Dominicans—to New York City. Cubans stayed in Miami for a quick return to Havana that never came. Mexicans and…

  • Of Loving and Zimmerman

    Of Loving and Zimmerman Univision Communications, Inc. 2013-06-26 Carlos Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Riverside In my last blog I addressed the question of Latino identity by examining the controversy in “Is the New Pope Latino?” I responded with an emphatic “yes” (in about 500 words). Since then, three separate items relating…

  • Where in the World Is Juan—and What Color Is He?: The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California

    Where in the World Is Juan—and What Color Is He?: The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California American Quarterly Volume 65, Number 2, June 2013 pages 309-341 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2013.0020 Laura Pulido, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity University of…