Category: United States

  • Meet Yosif Stalin, The Soviet-Born Black American From Kremlin, Virginia Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2016-04-08 Carl Schrek KREMLIN, Virginia — Yosif Stalin stood before his Kremlin home on a windswept afternoon this spring, his weathered hands gripping his walker. “I still own it,” he said of the white, two-story house off a lonely country road.…

  • Hapas Soon to Be the Majority in the Japanese American Community AsAmNews: Where the conversation about Asian America Begins 2016-04-16 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent The future is now in the Japanese American community. By 2020, just four years away, demographers says the majority of Japanese Americans will be multiracial/multiethnic. A new exhibition now at…

  • A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands

  • A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico University of Oklahoma Press 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806148649 Stephanie Lewthwaite, Lecturer in American History, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region…

  • The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perception Social Problems Volume 57, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 92-113 DOI: 10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.92 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine In the United States, racial disparities in incarceration and their consequences are widely…

  • Can Incarceration Really Strip People of Racial Privilege? Sociological Science 2016-03-18 Lance Hannon, Professor of Sociology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Robert DeFina, Professor of Sociology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania We replicate and reexamine Saperstein and Penner’s prominent 2010 study which asks whether incarceration changes the probability that an individual will be seen as black or…

  • The Elusive Nature of the Hispanic Category Brown Political Review Providence, Rhode Island 2016-04-02 Shavon Bell, US Section Staff Writer By 2060, 115 percent more Americans will be of Hispanic origin than in 2015. Consequently, pundits identify “the Hispanic vote” as the next frontier for ensuring political success. Political elites have thus scrambled to investigate,…

  • ‘The Firebrand and the First Lady,’ by Patricia Bell-Scott Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2016-02-19 Irin Carmon Pauli Murray, in 1946, and Eleanor Roosevelt, circa 1943. Credit Left, Bettmann/Corbis; right, Stock Montage/Getty Images Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for…

  • ‘The Black Calhouns,’ by Gail Lumet Buckley Book Review The New York Times 2016-03-16 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York THE BLACK CALHOUNS From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family By Gail Lumet Buckley Illustrated. 353 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26. In…

  • The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family Atlantic Monthly Press February 2016 336 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8021-2454-8 Gail Lumet Buckley Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress…