Category: United States

  • Smoking Trajectories Among Monoracial and Biracial Black Adolescents and Young Adults Journal of Drug Issues Volume 45, Number 1 (January 2015) pages 22-37 DOI: 10.1177/0022042614542511 Trenette T. Clark, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Anh B. Nguyen, Cancer Prevention Fellow Science of Research and Technology Branch (SRTB) Behavioral Research Program…

  • Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House The New York Times 2014-11-30 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — President Obama is planning a day of meetings at the White House on Monday to respond to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and racially tinged anger across the country after a grand…

  • Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories ed. by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Christina Gomez (review) Journal of College Student Development Volume 55, Number 8, November 2014 pages 856-858 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2014.0077 Jessica C. Harris Andrew Garrod, Christina Gómez, and Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013)…

  • Latino Life: Are We Tolerant Of Our Own Hispanic Diversity? NBC News 2014-08-02 Raul A. Reyes Being Latino means being part of a rich, diverse culture. Or does it? Some Latinos feel removed from their peers because of their skin color, language ability, or mixed-race heritage. Others have faced criticism for holding political views at…

  • What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson The Washington Post 2014-11-28 Sally Kohn Benefiting from white privilege is automatic. Defending white privilege is a choice. In the days before the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, when Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon decided to impose a pre-emptive state of emergency, a white relative posted…

  • The Census Is Still Trying To Find The Best Way To Track Race In America FiveThirtyEight New York, New York 2014-11-26 Ben Casselman, Chief Economics Writer At FiveThirtyEight, we use census data all the time to track demographic and social trends, from the aging of the U.S. population to the decline in marriage and shifts…

  • COLA Seminar Probes Shifting Identity of ‘Whiteness’ in America University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2014-11-17 Anne Bromley, Associate UVA Today The category of “white” as the majority race against which other groups have been described in the United States might seem well-defined, but it has been anything but that…

  • Michael Brown and the deadly effects of colorism Newsworks: WHYY News The Philadelphia Experiment Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-10-30 Solomon Jones The outcry triggered by the killings of unarmed men by police officers — from Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Mo., to the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY — has largely focused…

  • A Profound Documentary, Little White Lie Follows a Woman’s Search for Her Identify The Village Voice New York, New York 2014-11-26 Diana Clarke In Woodstock, New York, at the end of the 20th century, Lacey Schwartz was raised in an affluent Jewish household where something was slightly off. Darker-skinned than her mother and father, Schwartz…

  • ‘Dear White People’: A Mixed-Race Perspective Pacific Citizen: Then National Newspaper of the JACL Los Angeles, California 2014-11-19 Christine Munteanu, Assistant Program Director Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Last week, I watched a film called “Dear White People,” which follows the experiences of four black students at a predominately white, fictional Ivy League university. It…