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  • Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil

    Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil Associated Press 2012-05-04 Bradley Brooks SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists. The…

  • 4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters

    4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters The New York Times 2012-05-03 Sabrina Tavernise STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run…

  • Cultural Inversion and the One-Drop Rule: An Essay on Biology, Racial Classification, and the Rhetoric of Racial Transcendence

    In this article, my thesis is simple. If racial caste has been upended by changes in legal rules that created a hierarchical racial structure, its demise also has been hastened by the use of symbols, a strategy of cultural inversion with respect to the meaning of race.

  • How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956

    How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865-1956 University of Washington 2008 267 pages Publication Number: AAT 3328369 ISBN: 9780549817246 Anna Bailey A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy According to census reports, there were no…

  • Brazil’s top court backs racial quotas in universities

    Brazil’s top court backs racial quotas in universities The Australian 2012-05-01 BRAZIL’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that racial quotas used in universities are constitutional and are meant to redress inequalities stemming from centuries of slavery. The ruling issued by the 10-member court concerned the case of the University of Brasilia which in 2004 set…

  • “Which box am I?”: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico

    “Which box am I?”: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey August 2009 59 pages Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College,…

  • Dorothy Roberts Debunks Race as Biological in “Fatal Invention”

    Dorothy Roberts Debunks Race as Biological in “Fatal Invention” Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies 2012-01-15 Ytasha L. Womack, Contributor Dorothy Roberts is author of the book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 2011). She is also the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University…

  • Children of the Vietnam War

    Children of the Vietnam War Smithsonian Magazine June 2009 David Lamb Born overseas to Vietnamese mothers and U.S. servicemen, Amerasians brought hard-won resilience to their lives in America They grew up as the leftovers of an unpopular war, straddling two worlds but belonging to neither. Most never knew their fathers. Many were abandoned by their…

  • Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia

    Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia University of Virginia Press November 2008 312 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 9780813927558 Ebook ISBN: 9780813930343 Gregory Michael Dorr, Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Amherst College Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines…

  • Dispensing of Heart Drug Not ‘Black and White’

    Dispensing of Heart Drug Not ‘Black and White’ University of Alabama Research Magazine 2005-10-10 Chris Bryant Think we’ve advanced too far in Civil Rights issues and medical care to resort to making health judgments based on skin color? Don’t be so sure, says Dr. Gregory Dorr, an assistant professor of history at The University of…