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  • Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil

    Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 09:30 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 34 Oral Presentation Valter Silvério, Associate Professor of Sociology Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos,…

  • A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry

    A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry Slate 2016-06-29 Matt Miller You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either. Our genes dictate certain things about us, but ethnicity is not derived from a single gene. Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election, has decided to dredge up old…

  • The 2020 Census and the Re-Indigenization of America

    The 2020 Census and the Re-Indigenization of America Truthout 2016-06-26 Roberto Rodriguez Mexican American & Raza Studies Department University of Arizona As the 2020 US census looms, this arcane ritual will once again result in the painting of a false picture of the demographic makeup of the United States. While the nation has been getting…

  • Colorblind

    Colorblind Salon 2007-01-22 Debra J. Dickerson Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race — if he were actually black. I am confident that I have held out longer than any other pundit to weigh in on both the phenomenon that is Barack Obama and the question of whether race…

  • What black America won’t miss about Obama

    What black America won’t miss about Obama Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-07-01 John Blake (CNN) President Barack Obama was delivering a speech before a joint session of Congress when a white lawmaker jabbed his right index finger at Obama and called him a liar. The heckling came during his September 2009 address on health care.…

  • Barack Obama, the President of Black America?

    Barack Obama, the President of Black America? The New York Times 2016-06-24 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. What the haters and the hagiographers get wrong. It was a crucial speech, high-stakes even for a man used to giving important speeches: The first black president of the United States had to…

  • States of Denial

    States of Denial Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-06-04 When Barack Obama was first elected president in 2008, some pundits declared the United States to have finally reached a triumphal post-racial stage, an era of long-awaited racial harmony after the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Yet, almost a decade…

  • Brazil, Mixture Or Massacre? Essays in the Genocide of a Black People

    Brazil, Mixture Or Massacre? Essays in the Genocide of a Black People The Majority Press 1989 214 pages 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0912469263 Abdias do Nascimento (1914-2014) Translated by Elisa Larkin Nascimento Nascimento explodes the myth of a “racial democracy” in Brazil. The author is a major figure in Afro-Brazilian arts,…

  • Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil

    Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil Princeton University Press 2016 328 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9780691169385 eBook ISBN: 978140088107 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative…

  • Another Health Funder That’s Focused on Race in a Big Way

    Another Health Funder That’s Focused on Race in a Big Way Inside Philanthropy 2016-06-16 Rob McCarthy The racial dimension of health equity has long preoccupied top funders in the healthcare space and it’s not hard to see why. Spend five minutes looking at health data for the United States and you’ll be blown away by…