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  • From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again

    From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again What It Means to Be American: Hosted by The Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square 2015-08-31 Laua Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Kibei Nisei, 30 x 45 inches Oil on canvas (2012) A Painter Follows the Currents of Her Family…

  • Does It Matter If Black + White Equals Black or Multiracial?

    Does It Matter If Black + White Equals Black or Multiracial? Northwestern University News Evanston, Illinois 2008-10-17 Pat Vaughan Tremmel, Associate Director and Social Sciences Editor According to a new Northwestern study, racial characterizations do matter. EVANSTON, Ill. — “Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?” a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama…

  • Rewriting the History of American Sociology

    Rewriting the History of American Sociology Northwestern University News Evanston, Illinois 2015-08-26 Hilary Hurd Anyaso, Law and Social Sciences Editor Groundbreaking book argues W.E.B. Du Bois is primary founder of modern sociology EVANSTON, Ill. — In his groundbreaking new book, Northwestern University’s Aldon Morris has done no less than rewrite the history of sociology by…

  • The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology

    The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology University of California Press August 2015 320 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520276352 Adobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520960480 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520960480 Aldon D. Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois In this groundbreaking book, Aldon…

  • Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Black Lives Matter

    Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Black Lives Matter The Atlantic 2015-08-26 Adrienne Green, Editorial Fellow Courtesy of Shaun King Those that questioned Shaun King about his race think that it’s relevant to the movement. They’re wrong. Shaun King, a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, responded last week to accusations published by…

  • The Wrongs of the Right: Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

    In “Wrongs of the Right,” Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Obama, his administration, and African Americans.

  • Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status

    Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status Sociological Perspectives Published online before print 2015-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/0731121415602133 Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Tony N. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee The present study extends previous work on distress that arises from…

  • One woman’s quest to uncover her heritage

    One woman’s quest to uncover her heritage The Today Show 2007-11-12 Bliss Broyard writes about her journey to discover her hidden black roots Bliss Broyard grew up a “Wasp” in Connecticut with her mother, father and brother. For 23 years she was white, but it wasn’t until her father was on his deathbed that she…

  • The White Girl

    The White Girl Grosset & Dunlap 1929 305 pages Vera Caspary An African-American woman who moves north to Chicago where she passes as white. Read the entire book here.

  • “These narratives of racial passing have risen from the dead”

    “These narratives of racial passing have risen from the dead” Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2015 275 pages DOI: 10.7282/T38G8NJG Donavan L. Ramon Ph.D. Dissertation Instead of concurring with most critics that racial passing literature reached its apex during the Harlem Renaissance, this project highlights its persistence, as evidenced in the texts…