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  • Commodification of the Black Body, Sexual Objectification and Social Hierarchies during Slavery

    Commodification of the Black Body, Sexual Objectification and Social Hierarchies during Slavery The Earlham Historical Journal: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Inquiry Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Volume VII: Issue II (Spring 2015) pages 21-43 Iman Cooper The horror of the institution of slavery during the late eighteenth century was not that it displaced millions of…

  • The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities

    The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215626936 Abigail A. Sewell, Assistant Professor of Sociology Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia The author makes the argument that many racial disparities in health are rooted in political economic processes that…

  • Late Night Woman’s Hour (2016-05-27)

    Late Night Woman’s Hour (2016-05-27) Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 2016-05-27 Lauren Laverne, Presenter Lauren Laverne and guests discuss the origins and pitfalls of stereotypes of women. With Joanne Harris, best-selling author of Chocolat who has written about myth and fairy tales. Lisa Mckenzie, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, who has explored…

  • What Obama’s visit means for Cuba’s national conversation about race

    What Obama’s visit means for Cuba’s national conversation about race The Los Angeles Times 2016-03-21 Kate Linthicum, Contact Reporter In recent years, Afro-Cuban intellectuals have started gathering in a cramped Havana apartment to discuss a topic long considered off-limits in Cuba: race. Fidel Castro’s communist revolution 60 years ago promised to wipe out racial divisions…

  • 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,…

  • Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams: The Age of Obama and Beyond

    “Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams” is a moral call, a harkening and quickening of the spirit, a demand for recognition for those whose voices are whispered. Julius Bailey straddles the fence of social-science research and philosophy, using empirical data and current affairs to direct his empathy-laced discourse. He turns his eye to President Obama and…

  • “I Don’t See Color” Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

    Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to…

  • Native lawyer takes on tribes that kick members out

    DEMING, Whatcom County — In his big gray truck, Gabriel Galanda makes a notable entrance into a Nooksack tribal-housing development of a couple dozen modest homes, set on a winding road about a half-hour east of Bellingham. Many of the residents, members of a sprawling clan who move easily in and out of each other’s…

  • Is race a choice?

    Is race a choice? VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists Centre for Economic Policy Research 2015-01-26 Emily Nix, PhD candidate in Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Nancy Qian, Associate Professor of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Race is usually treated as a fixed, exogenous characteristic in academic…

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

    Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…