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  • Black, yellow, (honorary) white or just plain South African?: Chinese South Africans, identity and affirmative action

    Black, yellow, (honorary) white or just plain South African?: Chinese South Africans, identity and affirmative action Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Number 77 (2011) pages 107-121 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2011.0043 Yoon Jung Park, Senior Researcher in the Centre for Sociological Research Humanities Research Village University of Johannesburg On 18 June 2008, while the country was still…

  • Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition

    Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition Cengage Learning 2000 464 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0534573932  ISBN-13: 9780534573935 Edited by: James Montmarquet, Professor of Philosophy Tennessee State University William Hardy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Tennessee State University This anthology provides the instructor with a sufficient quantity, breadth, and diversity of materials to be…

  • Obama, Blackness, and Postethnic America

    Obama, Blackness, and Postethnic America The Chronicle of Higher Education 2008-02-29 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California, Berkeley The Obama candidacy challenges our notions of identity politics In their support for Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama, prominent black leaders have made it clear that black skin color itself…

  • Miscegenation Ball

    Miscegenation Ball The Atlantic 2011-02-01 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor Reporters should stop writing these beiging of America stories, and listen to Jamelle Boiue: The great majority of intermarriages take place between Hispanics, Asians and whites. If there is a great population of multiracial people, it’s almost certain that they will be some combination of Hispanic…

  • Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges?

    Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-30 Alex P. Kellogg, Special to CNN Among university departments that study African-American history, Latin American or Chicano cultures and all varieties of ethnicities and nationalities, there’s a relatively obscure field of academic inquiry: whiteness…

  • The Politics of Race

    The Politics of Race The New York Times 2008-11-04 The editorial writers Lawrence Downes and Brent Staples discuss how Senator Obama’s mixed-race identity has shaped his persona and his candidacy. View the video here (00:05:13).

  • Multiracial People are Multiplying

    Multiracial People are Multiplying brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2011-03-31 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University The New York Times recently published a story highlighting the increase in numbers of multiracial children in the United States. The numbers of self identifying multiracial children has doubled in the United States to…

  • The Invisibility of Multiracial Students: An Emerging Majority by 2050

    The Invisibility of Multiracial Students: An Emerging Majority by 2050 University of California, San Diego January 2009 252 pages Gina Acosta Potter A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership By the nature of their existence, multiracial people call to question deeply held notions of…

  • The End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America

    The End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America Yale University Press 2011-12-12 320 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4; 32 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300175196 Donald R. Kinder, Philip E. Converse Collegiate Professor of Political Science; Professor of Psychology University of Michigan Allison Dale-Riddle, Doctoral Candidate of Political Science University of Michigan How…

  • Racing ahead, going nowhere

    Racing ahead, going nowhere Very Fine Commentary 2011-04-17 Yoong Ren Yan, Editor Are we running around in circles with our policies on race? Racism is bad. What more is there to say?” It may not have been the case just 50 years ago in the time of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but in…