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  • Why We Need to Talk About Race in Adoption

    Why We Need to Talk About Race in Adoption Bitch Magazine 2013-05-29 Nicole Callahan Two years ago, on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains, I saw a white couple at a restaurant with their Asian daughter. Though her father told her to quit staring, I felt the girl’s eyes on me all through the meal.…

  • Black woman rises to leadership in Daughters of the American Revolution

    Black woman rises to leadership in Daughters of the American Revolution theGrio 2013-05-26 Donovan X. Ramsey This month, Autier Allen-Craft was elected to the position of regent in the Norwalk–Village Green chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Connecticut. Allen-Craft, a black woman, says the organization has come a long way since…

  • The United States of Mestizo

    The United States of Mestizo John F. Blair, Publisher 2013-01-01 48 pages 4¼ x 5½ 978-1-58838-288-7 ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-200-8 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts This powerful manifesto attests to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Ilan Stavans meditates on the way…

  • Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race

    Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race University of Illinois Press 2014 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 5 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03811-2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07959-7 Wanda A. Hendricks, Associate Professor of History University of South Carolina The biography of a key activist of the Progressive Era Born shortly…

  • Seeing Race in Modern America

    Seeing Race in Modern America University of North Carolina Press November 2013 Approx. 264 pages 6.125 x 9.25 10 color plates., 97 halftones, notes, index Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1068-9 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Brown University In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come…

  • A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era

    A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era Demography Published Online: 2013-04-20 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0210-8 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Racial distinctions in the United States have long been characterized as uniquely rigid…

  • Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception

    Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception PLoS ONE Volume 6, Issue 9: e25107 Published: 2011-09-26 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025107 Jonathan B. Freemam,  Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Matthias Scheutz,…

  • Remembering Crispus Attucks and the forgotten black soldiers of the American Revolution

    Remembering Crispus Attucks and the forgotten black soldiers of the American Revolution The Grio 2013-05-27 Ronda Racha Penrice Crispus Attucks. (Library of Congress) Memorial Day may be more about barbecues and blowout sales than honoring our deceased veterans these days, but there are many reasons for African-Americans in particular to take pause. Starting with the…

  • The Forgotten Amerasians

    The Forgotten Amerasians The New York Times 2013-05-27 Christopher M. Lapinig Yale University NEW HAVEN — THE Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill last week that would gradually make citizenship possible for as many as 11 million undocumented immigrants. The bill is widely described as sweeping in scope. In fact, it is not…

  • US Census: Rationalizing Race in US History

    US Census: Rationalizing Race in US History Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society, Othmer Library Brooklyn, New York 2013-04-18, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) View the full video of the event here. What boxes do you mark on the U.S. Census to describe your heritage? Prior to the year 2000, multiracial people could only check…