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  • Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru

    Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru University Press of Florida 2011-04-17 246 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3574-1 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4449-1 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English—in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades—to address…

  • Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo

    Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo Africa Today Volume 59, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 68-90 DOI: 10.1353/at.2013.0027 Karin van Bemmel Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium In November 2008, millions of Kenyan citizens expressed their happiness about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Four years later, people…

  • Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ‘Jews’ in the Twenty-First Century

    Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ‘Jews’ in the Twenty-First Century Berghahn Books May 2013 398 pages bibliog., index Hardback ISBN: 978-0-85745-892-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-85745-893-3 Edited by: Efraim Sicher, Professor of Comparative and English Literature Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and…

  • Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism

    Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism Feminist Theory Volume 14, Number 2, August 2013   pages 137-151 DOI: 10.1177/1464700113483241 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University  With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between being and feeling acceptable, pretty or ugly and…

  • “One Drop of Love” is Fanshen’s Story & She’s Sticking To It

    “One Drop of Love” is Fanshen’s Story & She’s Sticking To It Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-07-17, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Join us on today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio as we meet award-winning actor, producer and educator, Fanshen Cox. Fanshen is currently touring the…

  • Invitation to a Dialogue: The Myth of ‘Race’

    Invitation to a Dialogue: The Myth of ‘Race’ The New York Times 2013-07-15 John L. Hodge, Retired lawyer, Former Professor of Philosophy and Author Boston To the Editor: What should we do about “race”? Over many decades, those who study genetics have found no biological evidence to support the idea that humans consist of different…

  • Mixed Chicks Chat with Professor Rudy Guevarra

    Mixed Chicks Chat with Professor Rudy Guevarra Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #261: Rudy Guevarra When: Wednesday, 2012-06-20, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation,…

  • ‘Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race’

    ‘Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race’ The Good Men Project 2011-01-08 Steve Locke, Associate Professor of Art Education Massachusetts College of Art and Design Tom Matlack asked his friend Steve Locke to write for us about race. He declined. Here’s why. Dear Tom, Thanks so much for asking me to contribute something to…

  • In Florida, a Death Foretold

    In Florida, a Death Foretold The New York Times 2012-03-31 Isabel Wilkerson In the mid-1930s, a Yale anthropologist ventured to an unnamed town in the South to explore the feudal divisions of what we commonly call race but what he preferred to describe with the more layered language of caste. When he arrived — white,…

  • The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America

    The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America The Washington Post 2012-03-23 Reniqua Allen, Freelance Journalist and Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow New America Foundation A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades.…