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  • Yara Shahidi, the Iranian-American Star of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Breaking Stereotypes On & Off Screen

    Yara Shahidi, the Iranian-American Star of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Breaking Stereotypes On & Off Screen Muftah 2016-06-03 Alex Shams Over the last two years, the hit ABC sitcom “Black-ish” has deftly explored issues of race, class, and gender in the United States through the eyes of an upper-middle class, African-American family. The show has received rave…

  • The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities

    The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215626936 Abigail A. Sewell, Assistant Professor of Sociology Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia The author makes the argument that many racial disparities in health are rooted in political economic processes that…

  • Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference

    Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference American Behavioral Scientist April 2016, Volume 60, Number 4 pages 498-518 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613398 Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person’s essentialized identity that answer the question of…

  • The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Including Previously Uncollected Letters

    The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Including Previously Uncollected Letters Syracuse University Press 2016 360 pages 2 black-and-white illustrations, appendix, notes, index 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8156-3446-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8156-1068-7 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8156-5369-1 J. W. Loguen (1813-1872) Edited and with a Critical Introduction…

  • You Can’t Go from Zero to ‘The Daily Show’: The Playboy Interview with Trevor Noah

    You Can’t Go from Zero to ‘The Daily Show’: The Playboy Interview with Trevor Noah Playboy 2016-05-19 David Hochman, Contributing Editor Has there ever been a more auspicious moment to chase after clown cars on the road to the White House? Since bravely taking over for Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show last…

  • The Changing Face of Whiteness

    When Guido Menzio sat down on a regional jet for a short flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse, New York, he certainly couldn’t have guessed what was going to happen. The 40-year-old economist was profiled as a terror suspect for being focused too intently on a math problem.

  • Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist.

    Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist. Vox 2016-06-11 Victoria M. Massie The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists. And in the latest episode of MTV’s Decoded, host Franchesca Ramsey breaks down exactly why being colorblind to someone’s race not only doesn’t fix racism but, if anything, she…

  • What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia

    What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-06-10 Arica L. Coleman The landmark civil rights Supreme Court case—which made it illegal to ban interracial marriage—was about more than black and white When the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Loving v. the Commonwealth of Virginia, defendants Richard and Mildred Loving chose not…

  • Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis

    Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis Inquiries: Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities 2013, Volume 5, Number 8 pages 1-3 J. M. Allain There is ample evidence of sexual relations, from rapes to what appear to be relatively symbiotic romantic partnerships, between white slave masters and…

  • Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire

    Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire San Antonio Express-News San Antonio, Texas 2016-06-11 Joe O’Connell Former slave passes as Mexican millionaire Historian Karl Jacoby was driving near the Texas-Mexico border when he was stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol, the agency charged with keeping Mexicans out of the United States. He explained, to their dismay,…