Category: United States

  • Colin Kaepernick, Racial Identity and the Power of Protest Racism Review 2016-09-06 Alyssa Lyons Department of Sociology The Graduate Center, City University of New York NFL player Colin Kaepernick has made headlines recently by refusing to stand for the national anthem before football games in protest. It’s a protest linked to racial identity and politics, as…

  • ‘MIXED’ Values: Biraciality in Non-Post-Racial America Documentary Magazine International Documentary Association 2016-09-23 Caty Borum Chattoo, Co-Director Center for Media & Social Impact, Washington, D.C. Filmmakers Caty Borum Chattoo (front left) and Leena Jayaswal (front right) with the first mixed-race couple in North Carolina after the Loving v. Virginia decision. The comments—and the fetishizing perspectives—were naively…

  • Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana (1985) Justice Ward delivered the opinion of the Court. This appeal is brought by several members of the Guillory family, children and grandchildren of Simea Fretty and Dominique Guillory, both deceased. Six of the appellants, Marie Bernice Guillory Rougeau, Armet Guillory Fontenot, Lucy Elizabeth Guillory Parker, Suzy Elizabeth Rita…

  • The “Birther” Movement: Whites Defining Black Racism Review 2016-09-18 Dr. Terence Fitzgerald, Clinical Associate Professor University of Southern California Hallelujah I say, Hallelujah! Did you hear the news? Did ya? After sending a team of investigators to Hawaii, drawing the attention of the national and international media, and leading an almost six year charge of…

  • Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.

  • GONS-FA16.03 | Transcending Race GONS – Gonson Society Lecture Series The Cambridge Center for Adult Education 42 Brattle Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 2016-10-12, 11:00 EDT (Local Time) Carlos Hoyt Based on Carlos Hoyt’s recently published book, The Arc of a Bad Idea: Understanding and Transcending Race, will provide a penetrating, provocative, and promising analysis and…

  • Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness Policy Press 2016-10-05 224 pages 6¾ x 9½ Cloth ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-2281-8 Paper ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-2282-5 Shirley A. Hill, Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Kansas This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and…

  • Who Are We, Really? View from Rue Saint-Georges The American Scholar 2016-09-21 Thomas Chatterton Williams Detail from The Redemption of Ham by Modesto Brocos y Gómez (1895) Lately, as I’ve been working on my second book, a meditation on the absurdity of sorting human beings into metaphorical color categories, I’ve been thinking a lot about…

  • Racial awareness lacks “One Drop of Love” The Current St. Petersburg, Florida 2016-10-06 Mereysa Taylor, Co-Opinion Editor Cox DiGiovanni artfully narrates her own education about being mixed race in America in efforts to start a larger national dialogue. photo by Jeff Lorch Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni graced Eckerd with her one-woman performance about how race was…

  • Meritocracy in Obama’s Gilded Age The Chronicle of Higher Education 2016-09-25 Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York The Obama administration’s vision of social mobility in America is bound up with a story about higher education. According to this story, elite colleges and universities are engines of American opportunity. They select the…