Category: Anthropology

  • Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States Westview Press 1999-08-12 240 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0813336775; ISBN-13: 978-0813336770 Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas Recent times have seen the rise of a movement lobbying for explicit recognition of multiracial identity as…

  • `Caucasian and Thai make a good mix’ European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 12, Number 1 (February 2009) pages 59-78 DOI: 10.1177/1367549408098705 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada This article examines the current celebration of Eur/Asianness in the media and popular culture. It…

  • White but Not Quite: Tones and Overtones of Whiteness in Brazil Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism Volume 13, Number 2 (July 2009) pages 39-56 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2009-005 Patricia de Santana Pinho State Univiersity of New York, Albany This article analyzes anecdotes, jokes, standards of beauty, color categories, and media representations of “mixed-race” individuals to…