Category: United States

  • I have this peculiar, twofold, scrambled-egg relationship with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” the oft-quoted, seminal article written by Peggy McIntosh in the late 1980s.

  • How Racism Creeps Into Medicine The Atlantic 2014-08-29 Hamza Shaban Washington, D.C. The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference. In 1864, the year before the Civil War ended, a massive study was launched to quantify the bodies of Union soldiers. One key finding in what would become a 613-page…

  • I’m black, my brother’s white … and he’s a cop who shot a black man on duty The Guardian 204-08-25 Zach Stafford, Writer Chicago, Illinois I never thought that my brother would be one of those police officers. He was supposed to be different because of me My white brother loved black people more than…

  • Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and the meaning of race in America [Haltinner Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1938-1941 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.871314 Kristin Haltinner, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology University of Idaho Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and…

  • Race statistics: how to get from where we are to where we should be: a rejoinder Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1852-1856 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932413 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University America’s race statistics are inadequate to the policy challenges of…

  • The United States of the United Races: a rejoinder Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1857-1861 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932414 Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee I respond to a review by C. Matthew Snipp, revisiting how my book connects abolitionist leanings…

  • Utopian visions of racial admixture Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1847-1851 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932409 C. Matthew Snipp, Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Sociology Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Carter, Greg, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of…

  • The collection of race-based data in the USA: a call for radical change Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1839-1846 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932407 Peter Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, United Kingdom Carter, Greg, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian…

  • “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project Deviant Behavior Volume 35, Issue 12, 2014 pages 1006-1022 DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2014.901081 Tiffanie Grier, Career Placement Director & Garden to Groceries Project Director Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Memphis Tennessee Carol Rambo, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Memphis, Memphis Tennessee Marshall A.…

  • White Papers University of Pittsburgh Press January 2012 80 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780822961840 Martha Collins Winner of the 2013 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry White Papers is a series of untitled poems that explore race from a variety of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, questioning what it means to be “white” in…