Category: United States

  • Indian Enough for Dartmouth? Inside Higher Ed 2015-09-17 Scott Jaschik, Editor Dartmouth College this month appointed Susan Taffe Reed as director of its Native American Program. In a news release, the college noted Taffe Reed’s academic background (a Cornell University Ph.D. and postdocs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bowdoin College),…

  • The Hip Hop & Obama Reader Oxford University Press 2015-10-14 336 Pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199341801 Paperback ISBN: 9780199341818 Edited by: Travis L. Gosa, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Erik Nielson, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts University of Richmond Offers a comprehensive, scholarly analysis of the relationship…

  • How a Black Man From Missouri Transformed Himself Into the Indian Liberace The New Republic 2015-09-12 Liesl Bradner Photo: John Turner Before Liberace, there was Korla Pandit. He was a pianist from New Delhi, India, and dazzled national audiences in the 1950s with his unique keyboard skills and exotic compositions on the Hammond B3 organ.…

  • Puerto Rico is often depicted as a “racial democracy” in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In “Remixing Reggaetón,” Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy’s privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging.

  • Races, Ethnicities, and Cultures Mix More Freely Than Elsewhere in the U.S., But There Are Limits to the Aloha Spirit

  • Biases in the Perception of Barack Obama’s Skin Tone Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 14, Issue 1, December 2014 pages 137–161 DOI: 10.1111/asap.12061 Markus Kemmelmeier, Professor of Sociology University of Nevada, Reno H. Lyssette Chavez University of Nevada, Reno White Americans higher in prejudice were less likely to vote for Barack Obama…

  • Do Children See in Black and White? Children’s and Adults’ Categorizations of Multiracial Individuals Child Development Published Online: 2015-08-28 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12410 Steven O. Roberts Department of Psychology University of Michigan Susan A. Gelman, Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Linguistics University of Michgan Categorizations of multiracial individuals provide insight into the development of…

  • Identity and Form California Law Review Volume 103, Number 4 (August 2015) pages 747-838 Jessica A. Clarke, Associate Professor of Law University of Minnesota Recent controversies over identity claims have prompted questions about who should qualify for affirmative action, who counts as family, who is a man or a woman, and who is entitled to…

  • Penn Lightbulb Café Presents ‘Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in Genomic Era’ World Cafe Live Upstairs 3025 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tuesday, September 15, 18:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor; George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, Professor of…

  • Three Very Rare Generations The New York Times 1992-12-13 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University Soul To Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992. By Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby. Illustrated. 318 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $22.95. AMONG its other consequences, the demise of the Soviet Union has…