Mixed Race Studies

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  • Despite ‘Enormous Strides,’ Minorities Still Face Barriers, President Says

    Despite ‘Enormous Strides,’ Minorities Still Face Barriers, President Says The New York Times 2013-08-23 John Hurdle and Peter Baker SCRANTON, Pa. — President Obama declared on Friday that the United States had made “enormous strides” in race relations since the March on Washington 50 years ago, but said “institutional barriers” for African-Americans and other minorities…

  • We Should all Be Terrified

    We Should all Be Terrified brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2013-07-14 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Today, do not speak to me of peace. Do not speak to me of reconciliation or “turn the other cheek.” Today we must confess. We must confess to what our nation was and…

  • The Stuart Hall Project (2013) (John Akomfrah – Smoking Dogs Films)

    The Stuart Hall Project (2013) (John Akomfrah – Smoking Dogs Films) darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture General Issue 10 (2013-07-18) ISSN: 2041-3254 Dhanveer Singh Brar “With deepest gratitude and respect” – If there is a moment when the pieces of Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project fall into place, it is with this closing note.…

  • Race on the Menu: Cheerios, Paula Deen, with Some Supreme Court for Dessert

    Race on the Menu: Cheerios, Paula Deen, with Some Supreme Court for Dessert brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2012-06-26 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University It’s been a bad month. For some reason incidents and issues of race seems to appear like death, in groups of three. They clump together,…

  • Whites think race equality is nearer than blacks do, study finds

    Whites think race equality is nearer than blacks do, study finds The Los Angeles Times 2013-08-22 Emily Alpert Nearly half a century after Martin Luther King Jr. described his dream that someday people would be judged not by their race but by their character, whites think a colorblind society is much closer to reality than…

  • A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status

    A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status The New York Times 2013-08-23 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s highest court has long viewed itself as a bastion of manners and formality. Justices call one another “Your Excellency,” dress in billowing robes and wrap each utterance in grandiloquence, as if little had…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Participants

    Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Participants University of Alberta 2013-08-23 Jillian Paragg, Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology Are you of mixed racial background? Do you/have you identified as “mixed race”, “multiracial”, or with other “mixed” self-identifications (i.e. biracial, mulatto, eurasian, happa, creole etc.)? Do other people identify you as “mixed”? I am…

  • What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means

    What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means The Huffington Post 2013-08-22 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg The New York Times’ Motherlode blog recently posted a thought-provoking article called, “Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful.” The author’s experiences as a parent to a racially-ambiguous mixed…

  • Rethinking Race in Brazil

    Rethinking Race in Brazil Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 24, Number 1 (February, 1992) pages 173-192 Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Introduction: the Repudiation of the Centenário 13 May 1988 was the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. In honour of that date, various official celebrations…