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  • Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States

    Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States Demography September 2013 32 pages DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0242-0-0 Guang Guo, Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yilan Fu Hedwig Lee Tianji Cai Kathleen Mullan Harris Yi Li Self-reported race is generally considered the basis for racial classification…

  • Book Review: Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism and Blackness in Mexico

    Book Review: Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism and Blackness in Mexico LSE Review of Books London School of Economics 2013-08-30 Zalfa Feghali, Editorial Assistant Journal of American Studies Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and colour play in organizing the lives and…

  • Are There Human Races? The Evolutionary Biology—Or Not—Of Race

    From the Age of Exploration—beginning at the end of the Middle Ages—Europeans and their descendants legitimated their imperialist expansion ideologically by seeing non-European people through the lens of a racial worldview. Wherever Europeans colonized, and for differing lengths of time, you saw the usurpation of power and territory at the expense of indigenous people who…

  • The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions

    The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions Stanford University Press 2013 240 pages 7 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804757713 Paper ISBN: 9780804757720 E-bok ISBN: 9780804787284 Vilna Bashi Treitler, Professor of Sociology and Black and Hispanic Studies Baruch College, City University of New York Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates…

  • Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership

    Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership Indiana University Press 2013-03-22 344 pages 3 b&w illus 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00804-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-253-00807-7 eBook ISBN: 978-0-253-00811-4 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social…

  • The New New Thing, Again

    The New New Thing, Again MPG: unofficial thoughts, whimsical critiques, and occasional cultural commentary 2013-02-08 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana studies and American studies Brown University Someone referred to mixed race children as particularly “beautiful” the other day, and it made me think of this: In 1993, the cover of Time magazine featured a…

  • The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America

    The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America Reitman/DeGrange Memorial Lecture Series Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) Thursday, 2013-09-26, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Sociology Deptartment Chair at Duke University, will deconstruct whites’ post-racial or color-blind talk & suggest…

  • Walking While Black in the ‘White Gaze’

    Walking While Black in the ‘White Gaze’ The New York Times 2013-09-01 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Man, I almost blew you away!” Those were the terrifying words of a white police officer — one of those who policed black bodies in low income areas in North Philadelphia in the late…

  • Mixed People: “Natural Bridges” to Racial Healing & Utopia?

    Mixed People: “Natural Bridges” to Racial Healing & Utopia? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-09-04, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Rainier Spencer, Senior Advisor to the President; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies; Founder and Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will…

  • The Social Evolution of the Term “Half-Caste” in Britain: The Paradox of its Use as Both Derogatory Racial Category and Self-Descriptor

    The Social Evolution of the Term “Half-Caste” in Britain: The Paradox of its Use as Both Derogatory Racial Category and Self-Descriptor Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 26, Issue 4 (December 2013) pages 503–526 DOI: 10.1111/johs.12033 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, UK The term “half-caste” had its origins in nineteenth…