Category: United States

  • Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical by Todd Decker (review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 3, October 2013 pages 447-448 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0077 Bethany Wood Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical. By Todd Decker. Broadway Legacy series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 238. Todd Decker’s Show Boat: Performing Race in…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-23, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Juliet Hooker, Associate Professor of Government University of Texas, Austin The Mexican philosopher José…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-11-07, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Nadia Y. Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,…

  • Visualizing Race: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Struggle for Koreanness in Contemporary South Korean Television University of Texas at Austin August 2013 240 pages Ji-Hyun Ahn Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy “Visualizing…

  • Holding Onto The Other Half Of ‘Mixed-Race’ the race card project: six word essays Morning Edition National Public Radio 2013-10-14 Steve Inskeep, Host NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host/Special…

  • Identity Production in Figured Worlds: How Some Multiracial Students Become Racial Atravesados/as The Urban Review June 2013 Aurora Chang Using Holland et al.’s (Identity and agency in cultural worlds, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998) theory of identity and their concept of figured worlds, this article provides an overview of how twenty-five undergraduates of color came…

  • Transcending blackness: from the new millennium mulatta to the exceptional multiracial [Aspinall Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 5, 2014 pages 850-851 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.831934 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, UK Transcending blackness: from the new millennium mulatta to the exceptional multiracial, by Ralina L. Joseph. Durham and…

  • New faculty: Amy Non links health disparities to genetics and environment Research News @ Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 2012-11-30 Liz Entman, (615) 322-NEWS For decades, researchers have struggled to identify the root causes behind racial disparities in health. Amy Non, assistant professor of anthropology, takes a multidisciplinary approach. A molecular anthropologist specializing in epigenetics,…

  • Education, Genetic Ancestry, and Blood Pressure in African Americans and Whites American Journal of Public Health August 2012, Volume 102, Number 8 pages 1559-1565 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300448 Amy L. Non, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Clarence C. Gravlee, Associate Professor of Anthropology;  affiliate appointments in the Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health University…

  • Purple Boots, Silver Stars … and White Parents The New York Times 2013-10-13 Frank Ligtvoet, Founder Adoptive Families With Children of African Heritage and Their Friends, New York, New York “WHEN I wear my cap backwards, don’t copy me,” our 8-year-old son says to his 7-year-old sister. “O.K.,” she answers, “I will put it on…