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  • Health in Black and White: Debates on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Brazil

    Health in Black and White: Debates on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Brazil University of California, San Diego 2011 320 pages Publication Number: AAT 3458492 ISBN: 9781124703657 Anna Pagano A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology In 2006, the Brazilian Health Council approved a…

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium

    According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems until people understand that separate human races do not exist empirically. With the biological basis for race removed, racism becomes an ideology, one that can and must be expunged.

  • The New Racial Dialogue: Arriving at Whiteness in the Age of Obama

    The New Racial Dialogue: Arriving at Whiteness in the Age of Obama Journal of African American Studies Volume 13, Number 2 (June 2009) (“Joy Unspeakable: The First African American President”) pages 184-186 DOI: 10.1007/s12111-008-9077-y David H. Roane My essay issues a challenge for whites to see the blackness of President-Elect Obama as a reflection of…

  • Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race

    Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Volume 1, Number 1 (2010) 16 pages Online ISSN: 2152-1875 10th Annual White Privilege Conference Keynote Address Saturday, April 4, 2009 Memphis, Tennessee Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…

  • Were the riots about race?

    Were the riots about race? The Guardian 2011-12-08 Reading the Riots: Investigating England’s summer of disorder In partnership with the London School of Economics Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Open Society Foundations Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Yemisi Adegoke, Freelance Journalist Some commentators were quick to call them ‘race riots’, but the true…

  • The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars

    The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars Cambridge University Press September 1993 396 pages 228 x 152 mm ISBN: 9780521458757 DOI: 10.2277/0521458757 Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation…

  • Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil

    Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil Duke University Press 1999 232 pages 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2272-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2252-8 Edited by Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a…

  • Multicultural ‘obsession’ drives new Parliamentary Poet Laureate

    Drag our Leaf Icon above to your taskbar to bookmark TGAM in Internet Explorer 9. Show me how Please don’t show me this again Remind me later Multicultural ‘obsession’ drives new Parliamentary Poet Laureate The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2011-12-21 Jane Taber, Senior Political Writer Fred Wah is a little more familiar with the…

  • Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil

    Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil Washington Post 2011-03-18 Juan Forero, Staff Writer RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country—a leading center of black culture—has never had a black president.…

  • Talking Race w/ Social Critic/Legal Scholar Dorothy Roberts

    Talking Race w/ Social Critic/Legal Scholar Dorothy Roberts Blogtalk Radio Tuesday, 2011-10-11 Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania ITYC is honored to welcome leading legal scholar and social critic…