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  • The Risks of Multiracial Identification

    The Risks of Multiracial Identification The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-11-10 Naomi Schaefer Riley The comment period has closed on proposed new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education on how colleges should ask students about race. No longer, the guidelines say, should applicants simply be given the choice of black, white, Asian, American Indian…

  • Alien Land

    “Alien Land” is the passionate and haunting story of a light-skinned black man who can pass as white in mid-twentieth-century America.

  • The C.O.W.S. w/ Minkah Makalani – Jul 15, 2010

    The C.O.W.S. [Context of White Supremacy] w/ Minkah Makalani – Jul 15, 2010 The C.O.W.S Radio Show BlogTalkRadio 2010-07-15 Gus T. Renegade, Host Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Rutgers’ Minkah Makalani will share his views on the System of White Supremacy. Minkah Makalani is an assistant…

  • A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity

    A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 3, Number 4 (Fall 2001) pages 83-112 Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Over the past fifteen years in the…

  • More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order [Book Review: Christian]

    More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order [Book Review: Christian] The Western Journal of Black Studies Volume 27, Number 4 (2003) pages 279-280 Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York This book comes out the school of thought that advocates for…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 30, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 1167-1181 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães Department of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo In his recent comparative study G. Reginald Daniel looks at the convergence in race relations…

  • Black and White, or Shades of Gray? Racial Labeling of Barack Obama Predicts Implicit Race Perception

    Black and White, or Shades of Gray? Racial Labeling of Barack Obama Predicts Implicit Race Perception Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 10, Issue 1 (December 2010) pages 207–222 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01213.x Lori Wu Malahy University of Washington Mara Sedlins University of Washington Jason Plaks, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Toronto Yuichi Shoda,…

  • Racial Self-Categorization in Adolescence: Multiracial Development and Social Pathways

    Racial Self-Categorization in Adolescence: Multiracial Development and Social Pathways Child Development Volume 77, Number 5, September/October 2006 Pages 1298–1308 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00935.x Steven Hitlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Iowa J. Scott Brown, Associate Professor of Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Glen H. Elder, Jr. Carolina Population Center University of North Carolina…

  • Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans

    Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans Southeastern Geographer Volume 48, Number 1, May 2008 pages 19-37 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0010 Amy R. Sumpter, Instructor of Geography Georgia College and State University Louisiana and the city of New Orleans have a complicated colonial…

  • A Brief History of Census “Race”

    A Brief History of Census “Race” Knol: A unit of knowledge 2010-06-08 4 illustrations Frank W. Sweet, Independent Research Historian The U.S. federal census was founded to apportion congressional representation among the states. In order to achieve additional goals, it switched in 1850 from recording households in summary, to recording individuals in detail. It became…