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  • Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In

    Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In University of British Columbia Press 2011-10-11 308 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774820813    Edited by: Avigail Eisenberg, Professor of Political Science University of Victoria Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Queen’s University In an age of multiculturalism and identity politics, many minority groups seek some…

  • Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses

    Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…

  • Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story

    Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story AntiWar.com 2000-04-29 Justin Raimondo War infects and weakens our republican form of government, spreads social and political diseases throughout the body politic—but is, as Randolph Bourne put it, “the health of the State.” The State, in wartime, is glorified and empowered: the militarization of society means that all…

  • Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter?

    Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter? Poverty & Race November/December 1994 Lawrence Wright Chester Hartman, Director of Research Poverty & Race Research Action Council Last fall, the House Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, chaired by Rep. Thomas Sawyer (D-OH), held a series of hearings on modification of the existing racial categories used by the…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…

  • Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore

    Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2009-10-18 through 2009-10-22 Coex, Seoul, Korea 9 pages Leong Koon Chan, Associate Professor School of Design Studies University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Multiracialism and bilingualism are key concepts for national ideology and policy in the management of…

  • Science in the Service of the Far Right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby

    Science in the Service of the Far Right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby Journal of Social Issues Volume 54, Issue 1 (Spring 1998) pages 179–210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1998.tb01212.x Andrew S. Winston, Professor of Psychology University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Henry E. Garrett (1894–1973) was the President of the American Psychological Association in…

  • What’s Race Got to Do With It?

    What’s Race Got to Do With It? The New York Times 2012-01-14 Lee Seigel Mitt Romney may not have officially clinched the Republican nomination, but his victory has never really been in doubt. Nor has his viability in November: the most fanatical Tea Partiers are not about to withhold their votes and risk allowing President…

  • Call at Rio fashion show for more black models

    Call at Rio fashion show for more black models Agence France-Presse 2012-01-14 Only a handful of black models sashayed down the catwalk at this week’s Rio fashion show, sparking fresh calls for quotas to ensure greater diversity in a country where more than half of the population is of African ancestry. Some 24 labels displayed…

  • Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana

    Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 296 pages Brian Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies The study of…