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  • Disentangling “Race” and Indigenous Status: The Role of Ethnicity

    Disentangling “Race” and Indigenous Status: The Role of Ethnicity Queen’s Law Journal Volume 33, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 487 Sébastien Grammond, Dean and Associate Professor of Law University of Ottawa The notion of “race” is a social construction, discredited today by scientists as factually unsound. Individuals cannot be organized into discrete groups of people based solely…

  • Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

    Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society Indiana University Press 2012-08-16 336 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00629-5 john a. powell, Professor of Law; Director Haas Diversity Research Center University of California, Berkeley Foreword by: David R. Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Professor of History and African American…

  • Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy

    Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy NACLA Report North American Congress on Latin America 2008-11-17 Marisol LeBrón Political pundits have celebrated president-elect Barack Obama’s sweeping and historic victory as evidence that the United States has taken an initial step toward a “post-racial” or “colorblind” society. In a recent Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Shelby Steele provocatively…

  • Punjabi Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history

    Punjabi Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history The Washington Post 2012-08-13 Benjamin Gottlieb Amelia Singh Netervala points to her mother’s chicken curry enchiladas as the best metaphor for her childhood. Born to a Punjabi Sikh father and Mexican mother, her family was full of cultural contradictions: She went to church on Sundays with her mother…

  • Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies

    Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies Pambazuka News: Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice 2009-02-19 (Issue 420) Raquel Luciana de Souza Having closely followed Barack Obama’s electoral success, Raquel Luciana de Souza considers the prospects for a presidential candidate of African descent within the South American giant of Brazil. Scrutinising the historical…

  • An Exploration of Healthy Adjustment in Biracial Young Adults

    An Exploration of Healthy Adjustment in Biracial Young Adults Univesity of California, Davis 2008 175 pages Tamu Corrine Nolfo A DISSERTATION Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Human Development Given the historically negative views of interracial marriages and mixed race children proliferating the popular American social…

  • Growing Up Biracial in a Southern Elementary School

    Growing Up Biracial in a Southern Elementary School Georgia Southern University May 2009 139 pages Julie Kight A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION This dissertation explored the relationship between racial identity of biracial children (defined as fifty percent…

  • Barack Obama’s Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention: Trauma, Compromise, Consilience, and the (Im)possibility of Racial Reconciliation

    Barack Obama’s Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention: Trauma, Compromise, Consilience, and the (Im)possibility of Racial Reconciliation Rhetoric & Public Affairs Volume 8, Number 4, Winter 2005 pages 571-593 DOI: 10.1353/rap.2006.0006 David A. Frank, Professor of Rhetoric Robert D. Clark Honors College University of Oregon Mark Lawrence McPhail, Dean of The College of Arts…

  • Uncertainty and evolution: Contributions to identity development for female college students who identify as multiracial/biracial-bisexual/pansexual

    Uncertainty and evolution: Contributions to identity development for female college students who identify as multiracial/biracial-bisexual/pansexual Iowa State University 2008 322 pages Publication Number: AAT 3310805 ISBN: 9780549596066 Alissa Renee King A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In this study, I explored how female…

  • Time to drop racial categories in census

    Time to drop racial categories in census The Chicago Tribune 2012-08-16 Arthur Caplan, Director of Division of Medical Ethics Department of Population Health New York University The U.S. Census Bureau announced that it wants to make a number of changes in how it counts membership in a race. The change is based on an experiment…