Category: United States

  •   Millions of Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the next Pew Research Center 2014-05-05 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Social & Demographic Trends Project Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research…

  • Mexican Americans and the Question of Race University of Texas Press March 2014 184 pages 3 charts, 1 maps, 1 tables 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-75401-0 Julie A. Dowling, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies…

  • The Origins of “Privilege” The New Yorker 2014-05-13 Joshua Rothman, Archive Editor The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel…

  • Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children – Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children: A Handbook for Professionals Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2000 336 pages 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85302-959-2 Edited by: Kedar N. Dwivedi, MBBS, MD, DPM, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist Northampton Child and Family Consultation Service Experts from a…

  • Defining Mixed Race Feminism Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. 2014-05-16 Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton …Question of the Day: What is mixed race feminism? Good question given mixed race and gender issues aren’t often brought in conversation together even…

  • Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America The Ethics@noon Series The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Stanford University 2011-02-04 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University On February 4th, 2011 Allyson Hobbs discussed the Jim Crow era as a watershed in the history of racial passing.…

  • One Drop of Love – Lounge Theater 1, Los Angeles Plays 411 May 2014 Saturday, 2014-05-31 20:30 PDT (Local Time) Lounge Theatre 1 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90038 How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo performance exploring family, race, love,…

  • More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White The New York Times 2014-05-21 Nate Cohn Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white. An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as…

  • Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (review) [Padraig Riley] Civil War History Volume 60, Number 2, June 2014 pages 199-201 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2014.0041 Padraig Riley, Assistant Professor of History Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in…

  •   Beyond the One-Drop Rule: Views of Obama’s Race and Voting Intention in 2008 Sociological Science Volume 1, March 2014 (2014-04-17) pages 70-80 DOI: 10.15195/v1.a6 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut David Weakliem, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut We use data from a national survey of likely voters conducted before the 2008…