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African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise

2011-12-12

African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise Temple University Press February 1992 276 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Cloth ISBN: 0-87722-892-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-59213-104-4 Edited by David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Essays that focus on the authors’ observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade…
Racial Paradise or Run-around? Afro-North American Views of Race Relations in Brazil

2011-12-12

Racial Paradise or Run-around? Afro-North American Views of Race Relations in Brazil American Studies Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2005) pages 43-60 David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota North American students of slavery and race relations have long used comparative approaches to examine the troubling phenomena…
Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America

2011-12-12

Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America Rutgers University Press 2012-03-27 288 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5270-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5269-9 David Leverenz, Professor Emeritus of English University of Florida As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to…
Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

2011-12-12

Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology.
The Racial Paradox of Tribal Citizenship

2011-12-11

The Racial Paradox of Tribal Citizenship American Studies Volume 46, Numbers 3 & 4 (Fall-Winter 2005) pages 163-185 Indigenous Studies Today Volume 1 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006) Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University As I begin to write this my tribal election season is at hand. As usual, all the candidates claim to be…
Bearing the burden of whiteness: the implications of racial self-identification for multiracial adolescents’ school belonging and academic achievement

2011-12-10

Bearing the burden of whiteness: the implications of racial self-identification for multiracial adolescents’ school belonging and academic achievement Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 747-773 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.628998 Ruth Burke Department of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Previous literature on…
Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet

2011-12-10

Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet American Literature Volume 79, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 85-112 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-2006-072 Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a petition in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans to enslave herself…
The Value of Intersectional Comparative Analysis to the “Post-Racial” Future of Critical Race Theory: A Brazil-U.S. Comparative Case Study

2011-12-10

This Commentary Article aims to illustrate the value of comparative law to the jurisprudence of Critical Race Theory (CRT), particularly with reference to the CRT project of deconstructing the mystique of “postracialism.” The central thesis of the Article is that the dangerous seductions of a U.S. ideology of “post-racialism” are more clearly identified when subject…
Intimate encounters, Racial Frontiers: Stateless GI babies in South Korea and the United States, 1953-1965

2011-12-09

Intimate encounters, Racial Frontiers: Stateless GI babies in South Korea and the United States, 1953-1965 University of Minnesota June 2010 239 pages Bongsoo Park A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation explores…
Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions

2011-12-09

Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions Journal of Health and Social Behavior Volume 51, Number 1 Supplement (November, 2010) pages S15-S27 DOI: 10.1177/0022146510383838 David R. Williams Harvard University Michelle Sternthal Harvard University This article provides an overview of the contribution of sociologists to the study of racial and ethnic inequalities in health in the…

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