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  • Blurring the “Color-Line”?: Reflections on Interracial and Multiracial America

    Blurring the “Color-Line”?: Reflections on Interracial and Multiracial America 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies Issue 6: Special Issue – Race and Ethnicity (Fall 2000) ISSN: 1753-5794 Yasuhiro Katagiri, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American History and Government, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan “[N]o matter how we articulate this [case] [and] no matter which…

  • ‘Koreans are not racist’

    ‘Koreans are not racist’ The Korea Times 2013-08-02 Jonathan Breen Koreans can be close-minded to issues of race and culture, but they know it and they want to learn, says the head of a foundation that helps multiethnic children here. Yang Chan-wook, chairman of the Movement for the Advancement of the Cultural Diversity of Koreans…

  • Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask.

    Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask. The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-08-01 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington, Seattle It’s been nearly two weeks since the George Zimmerman verdict was handed down, and the conversations in my Facebook feed have shifted from…

  • Status and Stress

    Status and Stress The New York Times 2013-07-27 Moises Velasquez-Manoff Although professionals may bemoan their long work hours and high-pressure careers, really, there’s stress, and then there’s Stress with a capital “S.” The former can be considered a manageable if unpleasant part of life; in the right amount, it may even strengthen one’s mettle. The…

  • Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working-class mothers with mixed-race children

    Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working-class mothers with mixed-race children Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 8 (August 2013) Special Issue: Mothering Across Racialised Boundaries pages 1342-1358 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.776698 Lisa McKenzie, Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Nottingham This paper introduces a group of white working-class women…

  • Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S.

    Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S. Racism Review 2013-07-21 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University President Obama’s poignant comments on the white-racist discrimination that Black men regularly face were pathbreaking for this country. First, in the history of the U.S. never has…

  • Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World

    Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World Social History of Medicine Volume 26, Issue 3 (August 2013) pages 364-382 DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkt011 Londa Schiebinger, The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science Stanford University This article examines medical experimentation with humans in the Atlantic world. Physicians in this period tended to use bodies…

  • White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera

    White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-07-25 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York A strange meme circulates, apparently fueled by Geraldo Rivera’s White Hispanic, Yellow Journalism. It goes like this: George Zimmerman is not really white, he’s Hispanic, and so the…

  • Multiracial Child Resource Book: Living Complex Realities

    Published in 2003, this groundbreaking, 288-page volume edited by Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. and Matt Kelley, offers 35 chapters to assist the people who work with children to serve multiracial youth with compassion and competence.

  • SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics

    SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Fall 2013 Rutledge M. Dennis, Professor of Sociology This course examines the issues, individuals, and groups central to the intersectionality of race, culture, and politics in American life. We will begin with the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case which solidified and legitimized…