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  • Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide

    Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide Lynne Rienner 2003 230 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-58826-337-7 George Yancey, Professor of Sociology University of North Texas “By the year 2050, whites will be a numerical racial minority, albeit the largest minority, in the United States.” This statement, asserts George Yancey, while statistically correct, is…

  • Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities

    Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities Still Furious and Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? 2013-04-03 Robert Reece Department of Sociology Duke University Last week, an Asian-American fraternity at the University of California Irvine posted a parody of a music video featuring one of their members in blackface. Blackface has become the go-to…

  • Who is Latino?

    Who is Latino? The Washington Post 2013-06-21 Carlos Lozada, Editor of Outlook, The Washington Post’s Sunday section for opinion, analysis ‘Shut up, you stupid Mexican!” The words spewed from the mouth of a pale, freckle-faced boy, taunting me on our elementary school playground. I wish I could recall what I said to inspire the insult.…

  • There is No There There: Women and Intermarriage in the Southwestern Borderlands

    There is No There There: Women and Intermarriage in the Southwestern Borderlands Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 2013 Amanda Taylor-Montoya Amanda Taylor-Montoya is an independent scholar living in southern New Mexico. Borderlands are fuzzy, slippery, ambiguous places. Whether imagined as a geographic region straddling an international border, “the…

  • More Americans consider themselves multiracial

    More Americans consider themselves multiracial The Los Angeles Times 2013-06-12 Emily Alpert The number of mixed or multiracial people in the United States jumped 6.6% between 2010 and 2012, according to the Census Bureau. Their ranks will only continue to grow, experts say. The number of Americans who consider themselves multiracial has grown faster than…

  • Coming Out As Black, When You Were Hispanic

    Coming Out As Black, When You Were Hispanic Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-06-06 Celeste Headlee, Guest Host High school senior Elaine Vilorio wrote that she started seriously contemplating her blackness when she stopped straightening her hair. Elaine Vilorio Teen Elaine Vilorio spent years trying to make sense of her racial identity. She describes…

  • Coming Out As Black

    Coming Out As Black The Blog The Huffington Post 2013-05-24 Elaine Vilorio, High School Senior Northern New Jersey I’m Black. After many years in the closet, after many years of breathing that stale air of self-denial, I can finally say this. Growing up, I dreaded the question “What are you?” I always proudly answered that…

  • I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor

    I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor The Jewish Chronicle Online London, England 2013-05-30 Tom Tugend Eric Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor elected by Los Angeles voters, jokingly refers to himself as a “kosher burrito”, the latter word referring to a popular Mexican dish. The son of a Jewish mother and a father…

  • ‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013

    ‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…

  • Latino racial choices: the effects of skin colour and discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’ racial self-identifications

    Latino racial choices: the effects of skin colour and discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’ racial self-identifications Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 31, Issue 5, 2008 pages 899-934 DOI: 10.1080/01419870701568858 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced William Darity, Jr., Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and…