Category: United States

  • the changing face of “caucasian” The State 2013-04-21 Adam Rothstein, Insurgent Archivist and Researcher It’s been widely mentioned among a certain set on social media networks that the suspect in the Boston bombings is Chechen, and therefore, “Caucasian.” The good-natured purpose of this being to foil the usual insipid bigotry let loose in similar situations,…

  • Age of First Cigarette, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use Among U.S. Biracial/Ethnic Youth: A Population-Based Study Addictive Behaviors Volume 38, Issue 9, September 2013 pages 2450–2454 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.04.005 Trenette T. Clark, Associate Professor of Social Work University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Otima Doyle, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Chicago Amanda Clincy University…

  • The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Revised and Expanded Edition) Temple University Press March 2006 312 pages Paper ISBN: 978-1-59213-494-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-59213-493-9 Electronic Book ISBN:  978-1-59213-495-3 George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study…

  • Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 (review) [Sheffer] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0061 pages 203-205 Jolie A. Sheffer,  Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Julia H. Lee’s Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and…

  • Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future? Social Forces Volume 73, Issue 4 (1995) pages 1365-1383 DOI: 10.1093/sf/73.4.1365 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families University of Texas, Austin Americans are rapidly becoming an ethnically…

  • Artists explore the image of mixed race Asian-Americans in DePaul exhibit Medill Reports, Chicago 2013-04-18 Zhiyu Wang Medill Reports is written and produced by graduate journalism students at Northwestern University’s Medill school. In college, Wei Ming Dariotis used to want a T-shirt with “war baby” on the front and “love child” on the back. That…

  • Results from the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment U.S. Census Bureau Technical Briefing 2012-08-08 62 pages What is the AQE? The 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) focused on improving the race and Hispanic origin questions by testing a number of different questionnaire design strategies… Overview of…

  • Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays By Michele Norris 2013-04-17 Becky Christensen Ann Arbor, MI Despite growing up in a somewhat racially diverse area in the San Francisco Bay Area, I had never thought about the privileges I had based on being White until I read Peggy McIntosh’s “White:…

  • Author takes on modern myths about race Skokie Review Chicago, Illinois 2013-04-05 Mike Isaacs he 8-year-old girl who had difficulty breathing had been misdiagnosed for a long time, but then a technician looked at her X-ray and asked incredulously why she had not been treated for cystic fibrosis. The reason was because she was black,…

  • Ralina Joseph discusses her book Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial Weekday with Steve Scher KUOW.org 94.9 FM Seattle News & Information 2013-04-15 Steve Scher, Host Also this hour: Everett Herald reporter and columnist Jerry Cornfield catches us up on what’s happening this week in Olympia. Then, University of Washington…