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  • Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide

    Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide Lynne Rienner 2003 230 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-58826-337-7 George Yancey, Professor of Sociology University of North Texas “By the year 2050, whites will be a numerical racial minority, albeit the largest minority, in the United States.” This statement, asserts George Yancey, while statistically correct, is…

  • Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities

    Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities Still Furious and Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? 2013-04-03 Robert Reece Department of Sociology Duke University Last week, an Asian-American fraternity at the University of California Irvine posted a parody of a music video featuring one of their members in blackface. Blackface has become the go-to…

  • ‘Americanah’ Author Explains ‘Learning’ To Be Black In The U.S.

    ‘Americanah’ Author Explains ‘Learning’ To Be Black In The U.S. Fresh Air from WHYY National Public Radio 2013-06-27 Terry Gross, Host When the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was growing up in Nigeria she was not used to being identified by the color of her skin. That changed when she arrived in the United States for…

  • Racial Capitalism

    The Article focuses on instances of racial capitalism in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions use non-white people to acquire social and economic value. Our affirmative action doctrine provides much of the impetus for this form of racial capitalism. That doctrine has fueled an intense legal and social preoccupation with the notion of diversity,…

  • A Nation of Mutts

    A Nation of Mutts The New York Times 2013-06-28 David Brooks Over the past few decades, American society has been transformed in a fit of absence of mind. First, we’ve gone from a low immigrant nation to a high immigrant nation. If you grew up between 1950 and 1985, you grew up at a time…

  • Gilberto Freyre: The Reassessment Continues

    Gilberto Freyre: The Reassessment Continues Latin American Research Review Volume 43, Number 1, 2008 pages 208-218 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2008.0002 David Lehmann, Reader in Social Science University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre e os estudos latino-americanos. Edited by Joshua Lund and Malcolm McNee. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Universidad de Pittsburgh, 2006. Pp. 399. Casa-grande e senzala.…

  • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Being Different

    The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Being Different James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University 2011-09-15, 18:00-19:30 CDT Jenifer L. Bratter, Host & Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University New York University sociology professor Ann Morning, Ph.D., analyzes how scientists influence ideas about race through teachings and textbooks.…

  • New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population Past and Present

    Multiracial Americans have often been heralded as “new people” and in fact have been rediscovered as such more than once in the last century. Charles Chesnutt’s 1899 novel The House Behind the Cedars features a mulatto character who uses the phrase to describe himself and others like him; in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s,…

  • Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race

    Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-26, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates…

  • Who is Latino?

    Who is Latino? The Washington Post 2013-06-21 Carlos Lozada, Editor of Outlook, The Washington Post’s Sunday section for opinion, analysis ‘Shut up, you stupid Mexican!” The words spewed from the mouth of a pale, freckle-faced boy, taunting me on our elementary school playground. I wish I could recall what I said to inspire the insult.…