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  • Midday with Dan Rodricks 3-8-11 Hour 2 [The Invisible Line: Daniel Sharfstein]

    Midday with Dan Rodricks 3-8-11 Hour 2 [The Invisible Line: Daniel Sharfstein] WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore, Maryland 2011-03-08 Dan Rodricks, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University The Invisible Line: Daniel Sharfstein, a Vanderbilt law professor visiting Baltimore for an engagement at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, followed three families, from the Revolutionary…

  • Race and health care: problems with using race to classify, assess, and treat patients

    Race and health care: problems with using race to classify, assess, and treat patients University of Texas May 2010 64 pages Atalie Nitibhon Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Affairs Though racial classifications…

  • President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One

    President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One The New York Times 2011-03-20 Alexei Barrionuevo Jackie Calmes RIO de JANEIRO — From a visit to this city’s most infamous slum to a national address amid the gilded elegance of a celebrated theater, President Obama on Sunday sought to underscore the shared histories and futures of…

  • American Identity in the Age of Obama

    American Identity in the Age of Obama Northeastern University Amilcar Cabral Center in the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Boston, Massachusetts Friday, 2011-03-25, 08:30-15:30 EDT (Local Time) The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history of…

  • Media Advisory — Census Bureau to Hold Webinar Prior to Release of Center of Population and First Two 2010 Census Briefs

    Media Advisory — Census Bureau to Hold Webinar Prior to Release of Center of Population and First Two 2010 Census Briefs 2011-03-22, 18:00Z (14:00 EDT) Karen Humes, Assistant Division Chief Special Population Statistics, Population Division Nicholas A. Jones, Chief, Racial Statistics Branch Population Division Roberto R. Ramirez, Chief, Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch Population Division The…

  • Census serves up racial buffet in Silicon Valley

    Census serves up racial buffet in Silicon Valley Silicon Valley Mercury News 2011-03-20 Joe Rodriguez Who are you? What are you? Sara Phillips, a 20-year-old computer science student from Hawaii at Santa Clara University, just may have the new look of the 21st century. When her 2010 Census form arrived last year, she gazed at…

  • Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype

    Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype The Southern Literary Journal Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2010) pages 1-22 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 Dagmar Pegues The interrogation of the category of race in Kate Chopin’s fiction represents an essential dimension of regional aesthetics, and…

  • Identifying with Multiple Races: A Social Movement that Succeeded but Failed?

    Identifying with Multiple Races: A Social Movement that Succeeded but Failed? PSC Research Report (Report No. 01-491) The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Michigan 2004 33 pages Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research Prior to the 1960s, civil rights organizations sought…

  • The Mestizos of South Carolina

    The Mestizos of South Carolina The American Journal of Sociology Volume 51, Number 1 (July 1945) pages 34-41 Brewton Berry There are several communities of white-Indian-Negro hybrids in South Carolina, the members of which do not fit into the biracial caste system upon which the state’s whole social structure is built. Similar groups are found…

  • The Guineas of West Virginia

    The Guineas of West Virginia Ohio State University 1952 139 pages John P. Burnell, Jr. A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirments for the Degree Master of Arts. Table of Contents Introduction Methodology Geographical and Social Setting History and Origin Who Is A Guinea? Social Participation Attitudes and Beliefs Summary and Conclusions Bibliography…