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  • Examining Population Stratification via Individual Ancestry Estimates versus Self-Reported Race

    Examining Population Stratification via Individual Ancestry Estimates versus Self-Reported Race Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 14, Issue 6 (June 2005) pages 1545-1551 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-04-0832 Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan Cancer Prevention and Control Program H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Ranajit Chakraborty Center for Genome Research, Department of Environmental Health University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,…

  • The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition

    Twelve years after it was first published, The Future is Mestizo is now updated and revised with a new foreword, introduction, and epilogue. This book speaks to the largest demographic change in twentieth-century United States history-the Latinization of music, religion, and culture.

  • Latinos are “Mixed,” Too

    Latinos are “Mixed,” Too News Taco: The Latino Daily 2011-07-14 Chantilly Patiño, blogger Bicultural Mom Most times, Americans don’t think of Latinos as being mixed or multicultural, but in reality Latinos are leaders of multiculturalism and mixed families.  Start off with the fact that most Latinos come from a combination of European and Native ancestry,…

  • Marvel’s Mixed Race “Ultimate Spider-Man”

    Marvel’s Mixed Race “Ultimate Spider-Man” The Huffington Post 2011-08-03 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As a kid from Queens, NY it’s not hard to understand why Spider-Man has always been my favorite superhero. Aside from a shared geographical location Spider-Man reflected many of the qualities of urban youth. He came from a working class…

  • Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue

    Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 6 (July 2009) Special Issue: Making Latino/a Identities in Contemporary America pages 1071-1082 DOI: 10.1080/01419870902883536 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Christina A. Sue commented on…

  • Behavioral Health in Multiracial Adolescents: The Role of Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity

    Behavioral Health in Multiracial Adolescents: The Role of Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity Public Health Reports Volume 121 (March–April 2006) pages 169-174 Arthur L. Whaley Hogg Foundation for Mental Health University of Texas, Austin Kimberly Francis Hogg Foundation for Mental Health University of Texas, Austin SYNOPSIS Objectives. The purpose of the present study was twofold: (1) to determine…

  • “You Can’t Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:” A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity

    “You Can’t Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:” A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia May 2011 180 pages Melissa Faye Burgess Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment…

  • Race and Making America in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the US and Brazil

    Race and Making America in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the US and Brazil University of Michigan 2011 314 pages Tiffany Denise Joseph Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) in The University of Michigan This dissertation explores how US immigration influenced the…

  • Hispanics Identifying Themselves as Indians

    But there was something different about this tribe, the Tlaxcala, and when the music ceased and the chatter resumed, the difference became clear: They spoke exclusively Spanish.

  • Linda Martín-Alcoff: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self [Review]

    Linda Martín-Alcoff: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self [Review] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006-06-22 Linda Martín-Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, Oxford University Press, 2006, 326pp., ISBN 0195137353. Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco Linda Martín Alcoff’s book, Visible Identities, offers a conception of social identities…