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  • PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You?

    PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You? Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society Fall 2013 Nayantara Sen, CBBG Project Associate All photos by Willie Davis for Brooklyn Historical Society, 2013 Steven Riley, Founder of MixedRaceStudies.org gives a few remarks before introducing one of the panels. A participant in the packed the house in Brooklyn Historical…

  • “We Have Created Our Own Meaning for Hapa Identity”: The Mobilization of Self-Proclaimed Hapas within Institutions of Higher Education

    “We Have Created Our Own Meaning for Hapa Identity”: The Mobilization of Self-Proclaimed Hapas within Institutions of Higher Education Amerasia Journal Volume 35, Number 2 (2009) pages 191-213 Patricia E. Literte, Associate Professor of Sociology California State University, Fullerton This article examines Hapa student organizations on two university campuses—one public and one private. Drawing on…

  • Beyond “Code-switching:” The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans

    Beyond “Code-switching:” The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans University of Connecticut 2013 170 pages Chandra D. L. Waring A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Social science has examined the experiences of the burgeoning bi/multiracial population within the scope of three core areas: racial identity…

  • Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families

    Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families Yonhap News Agency Seoul, South Korea 2014-01-15 Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) — The government plans to streamline its support system for multicultural families to help them integrate into society, officials said Wednesday. The move comes as some existing services, including Korean-language education, have been redundant or…

  • The Stuart Hall Project (Washington premiere)

    The Stuart Hall Project (Washington premiere) The National Gallery of Art East Building Auditorium Between 3rd and 9th Streets, N.W. along Constitution Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 2014-01-19, 16:30 EST (Local Time) The celebrated Jamaican-born sociologist and theorist Stuart Hall (b. 1932) is the founding father of cultural studies — the popular interdisciplinary field that has…

  • Home is Where the Hurt Is: Racial Socialization, Stigma, and Well-Being in Afro-Brazilian Families

    Home is Where the Hurt Is: Racial Socialization, Stigma, and Well-Being in Afro-Brazilian Families Duke University 2012 228 pages Elizabeth Hordge Freeman Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology in the Graduate School of Duke University This dissertation examines racial socialization in…

  • The concept of socialrace

    The concept of socialrace Philosophy Social Criticism Volume 40, Number 1 (January 2014) pages 69-90 DOI: 10.1177/0191453713498252 Michael O. Hardimon Department of Philosophy University of California, San Diego Explication of the concept of socialrace: the concept variously refers to (1) a social group that is taken to be a racialist race, (2) the social position…

  • Robert Park’s Marginal Man: The Career of a Concept in American Sociology

    Robert Park’s Marginal Man: The Career of a Concept in American Sociology Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research ISSN 2076-8214 (print) ISSN 2078-1938 (online) Volume 4, Number 2 (2012) pages 199-217 Chad Alan Goldberg, Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Who now reads Robert Park? The answer, it turns out, is that many still…

  • Racial Democracy and Nationalism in Panama

    Racial Democracy and Nationalism in Panama Ethnology Volume 45, Number 3 (Summer, 2006) pages 209-228 DOI: 10.2307/20456595 Carla Guerrón-Montero, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Black American Studies, and Women’s Studies University of Delaware In spite of having more fluid and flexible racial boundaries than other regions of the world, Latin America continues to…

  • Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black?

    Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black? Africa is a Country 2013-12-20 Daniel Barbosa We’re always told (by our media, politicians, commentators, etcetera) that Brazil is the most multicultural and multiracial country in the world. That Brazilian miscegenation gave birth to a unique kind of beauty and that the Brazilian mixture of races…