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  • Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’

    Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ The Nation 2015-10-12 William Greider Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners. Fresh chatter among Washington insiders is not about whether the Republican Party will win in 2016 but whether it will survive. Donald Trump —…

  • Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas

    Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas Demographic Research Volume 31 Article 24 (2014-09-19) pages 735-756 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.24 Stanley Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Background: Racial inequality in the U.S. is typically…

  • Multiracial Gen Z And The Future Of Marketing

    Multiracial Gen Z And The Future Of Marketing Media Post 2015-09-03 Jose Villa, Founder and president Sensis, Los Angeles, California Millennials are generally believed to be the most ethnically and racially diverse generation in American history. Hispanics (20%), African-Americans (14%) and Asians (6%) make up 40% of the total millennial population. This diversity underpins the…

  • The post-racial illusion: racial politics and inequality in the age of Obama

    The post-racial illusion: racial politics and inequality in the age of Obama Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Américaine Number 3 (March 2012): Post-racial America? Olivier Richomme l’université de Lyon II-Lumière Contents 1. The 2008 election as an exception a-The circumstances b-A post-racial election? 2. The state of the racial divide a-Economic well-being b-Health c-Housing d-Education…

  • Negotiating cultural ambiguity: the role of markets and consumption in multiracial identity development

    Negotiating cultural ambiguity: the role of markets and consumption in multiracial identity development Consumption Markets & Culture Volume 18, Issue 4, 2015 pages 301-332 DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1019483 Robert L. Harrison III, Associate Professor of Marketing Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan Kevin D. Thomas, Assistant Professor Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations University of Texas,…

  • How A Latina-Asian American Ascended Amazon’s Ranks

    How A Latina-Asian American Ascended Amazon’s Ranks NBC News 2015-05-29 Stephen A. Nuño, Associate Professor of Politics & International Affairs Northern Arizona Univeristy If you have ever bought anything from the online retail giant, Amazon.com, you probably didn’t know that a multicultural woman is one of the managers leading the work behind the scenes with…

  • The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South

    “The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South” demonstrates that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represent a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding.

  • Mixed Race in Manchester – Intersections of Class and Mixed Race Identity

    Mixed Race in Manchester – Intersections of Class and Mixed Race Identity Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. Tuesday, 2015-03-03 Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton I spent the last three months of 2014 living in Manchester, England helping my…

  • Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico

    Ideas of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture in a Puerto Rican barrio

  • The Fluidity of Race: “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940

    The Fluidity of Race: “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940 The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 20828 January 2015 76 pages DOI: 10.3386/w20828 Emily Nix Department of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Nancy Qian, Associate Professor of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut This paper quantifies the extent to which…