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  • Multiracial in America: Who gets to be “white”?

    Jeremy Gordon on growing up multiracial, assimilation and “whiteness” in post-Obama America.

  • 15 striking findings from 2015

    15 striking findings from 2015 Pew Research Center 2015-12-22 George Gao, Associate Digital Producer Every year, we look back at our research to select the most memorable facts that illustrate important trends shaping our world. At Pew Research Center, the topics we analyze range from the specific subjects of video gaming and family caregivers to…

  • Race in Mind: Critical Essays

    “Race in Mind” presents fourteen critical essays on race and mixed race by one of America’s most prolific and influential ethnic studies scholars. Collected in one volume are all of Paul Spickard’s theoretical writings over the past two decades.

  • Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health

    Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Bethesda, Maryland 2015-05-08, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research will host the Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health, on May 8, 2015, at the NIH Campus, as part of the…

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America

    National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America Oxford University Press 2014-07-07 400 pages 22 b/w line illus., 4 b/w halftones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199337354 Paperback ISBN: 9780199337361 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley The first comprehensive history of census-taking and nation-making in nineteen Latin American…

  • Free at Last?

    Free at Last? Commentary 1992-10-01 Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences; Professor of Economics Brown University A formative experience of my growing-up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960’s occurred during one of those heated, earnest political rallies so typical of the period. I was about eighteen at…

  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “Why Can’t We Just Get Along?: Race Matters in the Colorblind Racial Movement”

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “Why Can’t We Just Get Along?: Race Matters in the Colorblind Racial Movement” Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University 2015-02-27 (Published on 2015-07-02) Presents… Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University “Race Today: A Symposium on Race in…

  • John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance

    John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance SUNY Press March 2013 Harcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4559-5 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4561-8 Robert C. Smith, Professor of Political Science San Francisco State University Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency. Political…

  • J.R. Reynolds: Say it loud: He’s black and I’m proud

    J.R. Reynolds: Say it loud: He’s black and I’m proud Battle Creek Enquirer Battle Creek, Michigan 2015-12-07 J.R. Reynolds, Community Columnist J.R. Reynolds Until my 2-year-old son is old enough to self-identify racially, I’ve declared him black. I’m raising him African American. Socially and legally. This, despite him being half white. Why? It’s in his…

  • Old Dixie Highway renamed President Barack Obama Highway in Florida city

    Old Dixie Highway renamed President Barack Obama Highway in Florida city The Washington Post 2015-12-19 Elahe Izadi, Reporter Workers install a new sign in Riviera Beach, Fla., on Thursday. (City of Riviera Beach) Old Dixie Highway is no more in Riviera Beach, Fla. Instead, motorists are driving on President Barack Obama Highway. Riviera Beach officials…