Category: United States

  • Black and white in America: The culture and politics of racial classification International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 7, Issue 2 (Winter 1993) pages 229-258 DOI: 10.1007/BF02283196 Ernest Evans Kilker The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and external…

  • Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States Demography September 2013 32 pages DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0242-0-0 Guang Guo, Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yilan Fu Hedwig Lee Tianji Cai Kathleen Mullan Harris Yi Li Self-reported race is generally considered the basis for racial classification…

  • Skin pigmentation, biogeographical ancestry and admixture mapping Human Genetics Volume 112, Issue 4 (April 2003) pages 387-399 Mark D. Shriver, Professor of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Esteban J. Parra Department of Anthropology University of Toronto at Mississauga Sonia Dios Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Carolina Bonilla Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Heather Norton…

  • Luck and a Shrewd Strategy Fueled de Blasio’s Ascension The New York Times 2013-09-11 Michael Barbaro, Political Writer The commercial that changed the course of the mayor’s race almost never happened. Bill de Blasio’s campaign team had mused about building an ad around his wife, Chirlane McCray, a telegenic African-American poet, then abandoned the concept.…

  • Comorbid substance use disorders with other Axis I and II mental disorders among treatment-seeking Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race people Journal of Psychiatric Research Available online 2013-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.08.022 Li-Tzy Wu, ScD, RN, MA, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Duke University Medical Center,…

  • De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff The New York Times 2013-09-10 David M. Halbfinger, Reporter David W. Chen, City Hall Bureau Chief Bill de Blasio, whose campaign for mayor of New York tapped into a city’s deepening unease with income inequality and aggressive police practices, captured far more votes…

  • Norma Storch Is Dead at 81; Subject of TV Documentary The New York Times 2003-09-21 Douglas Martin Norma Storch, a white woman whose decision to have her 4-year-old mixed-race daughter raised by a black couple became the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary made by the daughter in adulthood, died on Aug. 28 at her…

  • Interracial Family Memoirs: Reconstructing Genealogies across the Color Line Yale University 230 Prospect Street Room 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06511 2013-09-16, 12:00-13:15 EDT (Local Time) Cedric Essi, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies University of Erlangen-Nürnberg During the last two decades numerous autobiographical works have emerged which explore family histories in black and white, such as…

  • Pulitzer-Winning Poet Dove Gives Rall Cultural Lecture nih record Volume LVX, Number 8 (2013-04-12) Carla Garnett Any ‘Discovery…a Little Bit of Poetry’ A mixed-race violin prodigy, a self-proclaimed “African prince” and Beethoven (yes, the Beethoven). That unlikely trio provides much of the fascinating storyline in poet Rita Dove’s latest book, Sonata Mulattica. The Pulitzer-winning former…

  • The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions Stanford University Press 2013 240 pages 7 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804757713 Paper ISBN: 9780804757720 E-bok ISBN: 9780804787284 Vilna Bashi Treitler, Professor of Sociology and Black and Hispanic Studies Baruch College, City University of New York Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates…