Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle The Eugenics Review Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1959) pages 93-97 Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research This paper was prepared at the request of the Department of Immigration for discussion by delegates at the Australian Citizenship Convention. The…

  • Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process University of Nebraska Press 2004 355 pages paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8321-3 hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3226-6 Mark Edwin Miller, Associate Professor of History Southern Utah University The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria…

  • The Political Ontology of Race Polity 2011-10-17 DOI: 10.1057/pol.2011.15 Michael Rabinder James, Associate Professor of Political Science Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania   Race theory is dominated by two camps. Eliminativists rely on a biological ontology, which contends that the concept of race must be biologically grounded, in order to repudiate the very term, on grounds…

  • Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker Platform: Journal of Media and Communication Volume 3, Issue 1, Media and “Race” (April 2011) pages 26-34 ISSN: 1836-5132 Sandy Watson, University of Melbourne, Australia Clarence Walker is recognised as one of the leading historians of American race relations, and is noted for…

  • CCIG Forum 24: ‘Mixing’/’Non-mixing’? The in/significance of race in mixed raciality, family narratives and welfare practices Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Library Seminar Rooms 1 & 2 2011-12-06, 10:00-17:00Z Keynote speakers: Chantal Badjiie (Editorial Lead on the Mixed Race Season on the BBC, TBC), Petra Nordqvist…

  • Imagining Obama: Reading Overtly and Inferentially Racist Images of our 44th President, 2007–2008 Communication Studies Volume 62, Issue 4, 2011 Special Issue:“Race Matters” in the Obama Era pages 389-405 DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2011.588074 Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington In this article I analyze eight Internet images of President Barack Obama from the…

  • Doctor’s quest to engineer a “master race” in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes WTVR-CBS 6 TV Richmond, Virginia 2011-07-12 Mark Holmberg, Staff reporter RICHMOND— Richmond’s famous Hollywood Cemetery serves as the final resting place of presidents, statesmen and generals. Few have had the impact of Dr. Walter Plecker. His stormy legacy continues…

  • Because of Intersex: Intersexuality, Title VII, and the Reality of Discrimination “Because of… [Perceived] Sex” New York University Law Review of Law & Social Change Volume 34, Issue 1 (2010) pages 55-121 Ilana Gelfman, Skadden Fellow Greater Boston Legal Services The federal doctrine of sex discrimination in employment depends on the underlying yet unstated assumption…

  • The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage New York University Law Review Volume 86, Number 5 (November 2011) pages 1361-1443 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law University of California, Davis This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The traditional narrative of the history of the American racial regulation…

  • Commentary: Debating Coloured Identity in the Western Cape African Security Review Volume 14, Number 4 (2005) pages 118-119 Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow Security Sector Governance Programme Institute of Security Studies, (Tshwane) Pretoria The nature and form of coloured identity in the Western Cape has been vociferously debated. Coloured identity became a particular concern after…