Category: United States

  • Discourses of Citizenship in American and Brazilian Affirmative Action Court Decisions American Journal of Comparative Law Volume 64, Number 2, (Summer 2016) pages 455-504 DOI: 10.5131/AJCL.2016.0015 Adilson José Moreira Harvard University; Mackenzie Presbyterian University American and Brazilian courts are traveling quite different paths regarding the question of racial justice. Race neutrality has become an influential…

  • BEST OF 2016: 12 on Tuesday with Matthew Braunginn Madison365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-12-21 Henry Sanders Matthew Braunginn A founder of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, Matthew Braunginn works to close the achievement gaps as a coordinator with UW’s PEOPLE program. [Since this came out, Braunginn has become the Student Engagement Specialist for the Middleton-Cross…

  • Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society HiLite: Your Source For CHS News Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana 2016-12-12 Allison Li, Calendar/Beats Editor, Feature Reporter Junior Kiki Koniaris is Korean, Pennsylvanian Dutch and Grecian. Despite being of mixed race, Koniaris said she believes race should not define…

  • “IT’S LIKE WE HAVE AN ‘IN’ ALREADY”: The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Published online: 2016-12-19 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X16000357 Chandra D. L. Waring, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology University of Wisconsin, Whitewater The increasing bi/multiracial1 community in the United States has generated much literature about…

  • Mixed: Documentary to Explore Interracial Families American University Washington, D.C. 2016-12-15 Gregg Sangillo, Online Writer School of Communication professors Leena Jayaswal (l) and Caty Borum Chattoo (r) are making a film about interracial families in the United States. It took a while for documentary filmmakers Leena Jayaswal and Caty Borum Chattoo to realize that they…

  • Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel alt.Latino: Latinx Arts and Culture National Public Radio 2017-01-04 Felix Contreras, Host Xenia Rubinos plays Guest DJ on this week’s episode of Alt.Latino. Courtesy of the artist Vocalist Xenia Rubinos ended 2016 with a bang: Her album Black Terry Cat was singled out in best-of-the-year…

  • The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 145-146 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676788 Emily Walton, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Anthony Christian Ocampo, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. Stanford,…

  • Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America Praeger January 2017 310 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3063-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3064-8 Judith Ann Warner, Professor of Sociology Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas Do the commercial applications of the human genome in ancestry tracing, medicine, and forensics serve to further…

  • In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen Dartmouth College Press 2017-01-03 296 pages 10 illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 978-1-5126-0019-3 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-5126-0018-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9 Samuele F. S. Pardini, Associate Professor of Italian Department of World Languages and Cultures…

  • Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian American senator and California’s first black senator The Los Angeles Times 2017-01-03 Sara D. Wire, Congressional Delegation Reporter Before friends and family in a packed chamber, Kamala Harris was sworn in as California’s newest U.S. senator Tuesday morning. She became the first black woman the Golden State has…