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  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-11-07, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Nadia Y. Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,…

  • Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media

    Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media Cultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 3, 2014 pages 391-417 DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2013.840665 Ji-Hyun Ahn University of Texas, Austin Since the mid-2000s, the term multiculturalism has entered the Korean lexicon as migration has become more and more…

  • Artists, Educators Laud Black Heritage In Dominican Republic

    Artists, Educators Laud Black Heritage In Dominican Republic The Associated Press 2013-10-11 Ezequiel Abiú López, Foreign Correspondent The Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — In a school auditorium filled with laughing students, actresses Luz Bautista Matos and Clara Morel threw themselves into acting out a fairy tale complete with a princess, a hero…

  • Despite Options on Census, Many to Check ‘Black’ Only

    Despite Options on Census, Many to Check ‘Black’ Only The New York Times 2000-02-12 Diana Jean Schemo This year’s new, racially inclusive census might have seemed tailor made for Michael Gelobter. The son of a white Jewish father and an African-Bermudan mother, Mr. Gelobter lives in Harlem with his wife, Sharron Williams, a black woman…

  • Unraveling the Concept of Race in Brazil: Issues for the Rio de Janeiro Cooperative Agreement Site

    Unraveling the Concept of Race in Brazil: Issues for the Rio de Janeiro Cooperative Agreement Site Journal of Psychoactive Drugs Volume 30,  Issue 3, 1998  Special Issue: HIV/AIDS Interventions For Out-of-Treatment Drug Users pages 255-260 DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1998.10399700 Hilary L. Surratt The Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies University of Delaware James A. Inciardi (1939-2009), Co-Director…

  • Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self

    “Lines of the Nation” radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the…

  • Public genealogies: Documents, bodies and nations in Anglo-Indian railway family histories

    Public genealogies: Documents, bodies and nations in Anglo-Indian railway family histories Contributions to Indian Sociology Volume 35, Number 3 (October 2001) pages 355-388 DOI: 10.1177/006996670103500303 Laura Bear Department of Anthropology The London School of Economics This article argues for an approach to archives and documents that focusses on their material effects. It traces the impact…

  • Forced to pass and other sins against authenticity

    Forced to pass and other sins against authenticity Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1, 2005 pages 17-32 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571486 Kerry Ann Rockquemore According to the identity commandments, passing is a sin against authenticity. Thou shall not pretend to be something that you are not. Men should not pretend to…

  • Is race erased? Decoding race from patterns of neural activity when skin color is not diagnostic of group boundaries

    Is race erased? Decoding race from patterns of neural activity when skin color is not diagnostic of group boundaries Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Volume 8, Issue 7 (October 2013) pages 750-755 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss063 Kyle G. Ratner Department of Psychology New York University Christian Kaul Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York…

  • Professor discusses covert racism

    Professor discusses covert racism The Dartmouth Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 2013-09-27 Bryn Morgan Though racism is more covert today, blacks are subject to the same prejudice as they were in the 1960s, Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva argued in a lecture on Thursday. Bonilla-Silva said a new form of racism has emerged, replacing…