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  • What Does “Black” And “White” Look Like Anyway?

    What Does “Black” And “White” Look Like Anyway? Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2008-10-24 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Gwen Sharp, Assistant Professor of Sociology Nevada State College These two photos—one of Barack Obama as an adult and one of a young Obama and his Grandfather, Stanley Dunham—are a great opportunity…

  • The Census and the Social Construction of Race

    The Census and the Social Construction of Race Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2010-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethicity are social constructions, not biological categories.  The U.S. government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are “real.”  You can find them…

  • Mixed Chicks Chat Interview with Steve Riley, Creator of Mixed Race Studies

    Mixed Chicks Chat Interview with Steve Riley, Creator of Mixed Race Studies Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #147 – Steven F. Riley When:…

  • ‘Passing’ Across The Color Line In The Jazz Age

    ‘Passing’ Across The Color Line In The Jazz Age National Public Radio All Things Considered: You Must Read This 2010-04-07 Heidi W. Durrow Heidi W. Durrow is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Law School. Her debut novel is “The Girl Who Fell From The Sky.” There are novels that…

  • The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York

    The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York The American Indian Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2010) pages 83-108 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0087 Tom Arne Midtrød, Professor of History University of Iowa In 1709 the English Board of Trade recommended the settlement of three thousand…

  • Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters

    Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters The New York Times 2009-07-30 Deborah Solomon As the new head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, can you tell us how your organization plans to respond to the case of Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor who was recently arrested for disorderly…

  • Obama Census Choice: African-American

    Obama Census Choice: African-American The Huffington Post 2010-04-02 Mark S. Smith WASHINGTON — He may be the world’s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American. The White House confirmed on Friday that Obama did…

  • Measurement Uncertainty in Racial and Ethnic Identification Among Adolescents of Mixed Ancestry: A Latent Variable Approach

    Measurement Uncertainty in Racial and Ethnic Identification Among Adolescents of Mixed Ancestry: A Latent Variable Approach Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal Volume 17, Issue 1 (January 2010) pages 110 – 133 DOI: 10.1080/10705510903439094 Allison J. Tracy Wellesley Centers for Women Sumru Erkut Wellesley Centers for Women Michelle V. Porche Wellesley Centers for Women Jo…

  • Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference

    Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies, Inc. 2010-04-08 through 2010-04-10 L’Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington, D.C. Dr. Larry Shinagawa, NAES 2010 Conference Chair Our theme of “Who Counts and Who’s Counting” signals the importance of Washington, D.C. as a physical, cultural, and social…

  • 3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census

    3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010-04-01 Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology As America’s decennial headcount gets under way, an MIT political scientist discusses the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census April 1 marks National…