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  • Trevor Noah Says He’s Not a Political Progressive. He’d Be Funnier If He Were.

    Trevor Noah Says He’s Not a Political Progressive. He’d Be Funnier If He Were. The Nation 2015-10-09 Katie Halper (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah / Brad Barket) The new Daily Show host doesn’t have much to say, which leaves him making jokes about tramp stamps and body weight. Unlike Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah doesn’t…

  • Tap Roots (1948): A Review of the first “Free State of Jones” movie

    Tap Roots (1948): A Review of the first “Free State of Jones” movie Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2015-10-11 Vikki Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos As we await the release of The Free State of Jones, I thought it might be fun to visit an earlier movie similarly inspired…

  • The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions

    The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 651, Number 1 (January 2014) pages 104-121 DOI: 10.1177/0002716213503097 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Jessica M. Kizer Department of Sociology…

  • Disentangling the Effects of Racial Self-identification and Classification by Others: The Case of Arrest

    Disentangling the Effects of Racial Self-identification and Classification by Others: The Case of Arrest Demography June 2015, Volume 52, Issue 3 pages 1017-1024 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-015-0394-1 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Scholars of race have stressed the importance of thinking about race…

  • 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…

  • The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African-Americans

    The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African-Americans American Journal of Sociology Volume 121, Number 2 (September 2015) pages 396-444 DOI: 10.1086/682162 Ellis P. Monk Jr., Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Chicago In this study, the author uses a nationally representative survey to examine the relationship(s) between skin tone,…

  • Light in the Shadows: Staying at the Table When the Conversation about Race Gets Hard

    Light in the Shadows: Staying at the Table When the Conversation about Race Gets Hard World Trust Films 2010 DVD, 00:45:00 United States Shakti Butler, Director and Producer Light in the Shadows: Staying at the Table When the Conversation about Race Gets Hard records a frank dialogue among two white women and several women of…

  • The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality

    The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality Sociology Compass Volume 1, Issue 1 (September 2007) pages 237-254 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00006.x Margaret Hunter, Mary S. Metz Professorship for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching Professor of Sociology Mills College, Oakland, California Colorism is a persistent problem for people of color in the USA. Colorism, or…

  • The Invisible Asian

    The Invisible Asian The New York Times 2015-10-07 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia David Haekwon Kim, Associate Professor of Philosophy University of San Francisco This is the latest in a series of interviews about philosophy of race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with David Haekwon Kim, an…

  • No, Native Americans aren’t genetically more susceptible to alcoholism

    No, Native Americans aren’t genetically more susceptible to alcoholism The Verge 2015-10-02 Maia Szalavitz Time to retire the ‘firewater‘ fairytale When Jessica Elm, a citizen of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, was studying for her master’s degree in social work, she frequently heard about how genes were responsible for the high risk of…