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  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review]

    Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review] Journal of American History Volume 99, Issue 4 (2013) pages 1285-1286 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jas672 David FitzGerald, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.…

  • Excursus on “Hapa”; or the Fate of Identity

    Excursus on “Hapa”; or the Fate of Identity Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature 11 pages Nicole Myoshi Rabin University of Hawai‘i, Manoa When I was growing up the license plate on my mom’s Dodge minivan read: R3HAPAS. My mom explained to my sister, brother,…

  • Am I Enough? A Multi-Race Teacher’s Experience In-Between Contested Race, Gender, Class, and Power

    AM NOT WHITE. I am not Black. I am mixed. I am one half Polish, one quarter Russian, and one-quarter Japanese. I was born, raised, and educated in public schools in the suburbs of Chicago, and then abruptly transitioned to public schools located in north Alabama when I was an adolescent.

  • Assuming Responsibility for Who You Are: The Right To Choose “Immutable” Identity Characteristics

    Assuming Responsibility for Who You Are: The Right To Choose “Immutable” Identity Characteristics New York University Law Review Volume 88, Number 1 (April 2013) pages 373-400 Anthony R. Enriquez New York University School of Law Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management, a district court case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act,…

  • Leo Branton Jr., Activists’ Lawyer, Dies at 91

    Leo Branton Jr., Activists’ Lawyer, Dies at 91 The New York Times 2013-04-27 William Yardley Associated Press Leo Branton Jr. with Angela Davis during her 1972 trial on murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges. She was acquitted. Leo Branton Jr., a California lawyer whose moving closing argument in a racially and politically charged murder trial in…

  • Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray

    Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray Harvard Magazine May-June 2013 Craig Lambert Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues. In The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, David Remnick relates a story from Obama’s first year at Harvard Law School, when he registered for “Race, Racism, and American Law,” a…

  • We Are Not Going To Go Away

    We Are Not Going To Go Away “Colonial Williamsburg” Journal Spring 2013 Andrew G. Gardner Virginia’s Pamunkey Indians Greeted the Jamestown Settlers, but They Are Still Waiting for National Recognition Beyond Virginia’s borders, the Pamunkey Indians are remembered, when they are remembered at all, mostly for a princess named Pocahontas. England’s Queen Elizabeth II probably…

  • Hot Colors: Race, Sex, and Love

    Hot Colors: Race, Sex, and Love Harvard Magazine March-April 2003 Craig Lambert Tiger Woods, possibly the world’s best-known athlete, resists being called a “black” golfer. He coined the term “Cablinasian” (Caucasian, black, Indian, Asian) to identify his race, and used it on the Oprah Winfrey television show after winning the 1997 Masters tournament. Although Woods’s…

  • In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites

    In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites Associated Press 2013-04-29 Hope Yen WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama…

  • Black pols stymied in Obama era

    Black pols stymied in Obama era Politico 2013-04-29 Jonathan Martin, Senior Political Reporter More than five years after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses and demolished the notion that white voters wouldn’t support a black presidential candidate, progress for other African-American politicians remains elusive. Even as the country elected and reelected Obama, making it seem…