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  • Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’

    Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’ The Washington Examiner 2013-05-13 Paul Bedard Soledad O’Brien, recently yanked from her morning show “Starting Point” on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation’s black-white division. O’Brien,…

  • Half/Full

    Half/Full UC Irvine Law Review University of California, Irvine Law School Volume 3, Forthcoming Online: 2013-04-07 pages 101-125 Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver, Sturm College of Law Research suggests that multiracial identity is uniquely malleable, and I will focus here on the significance of that malleability for mixed-Asian individuals. At various times,…

  • The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama

    The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 10, Issue 1, December 2010 pages 182–206 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01207.x Phillip L. Hammack, Associate Professor of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz Guided by theories of narrative identity, racial identity development, and Freire’s (1970) notion of conscientização,…

  • I Found One Drop: Can I Be Black Now?

    I Found One Drop: Can I Be Black Now? The Root 2013-05-01 Jenée Desmond-Harris Race Manners: Time for a racial gut check. Has your African-American ancestor really changed anything? “I recently availed myself of my university’s online resources and did some genealogical digging about my white conservative family. It turns out that one of our…

  • Cornel West: ‘They say I’m un-American’

    Cornel West: ‘They say I’m un-American’ The Guardian 2013-05-12 Hugh Muir, Diary Editor The American academic and firebrand campaigner talks about Britain’s deep trouble, fighting white supremacy and where Obama is going wrong Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems. They are on a schedule…

  • A Statistical Octoroon

    A Statistical Octoroon Los Angeles Herald Volume XXIX, Number 2 (1901-10-03) page 4, columns 6-7 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection The Average American Seven Parts White and One Part Colored The average adult American is a statistical octoroon, says Dr. Henry Gannett In Everybody’s Magazine. If the blood in the veins of all our of…

  • The Gil Gross Program with Marcia Dawkins

    The Gil Gross Program with Marcia Dawkins The Gil Gross Program Talk 910, KKSF AM San Francisco, California Monday, 2013-05-13 Gil Gross, Host Gil speaks with Marcia Dawkins, author of “Clearly Invisible; Racial passing and the Color of Cultural Identity“, about the growth of our mulit-racial nation. Download the audio here.

  • Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation

    Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-05-12 Arun Rath, Host [Note from Steven F. Riley: My wife and I live in the White Oak neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.] Larry Bright holds his 3-year-old son’s hand while the boy steps through a leafy playground in…

  • Latino Racial Reporting in the US: To Be or Not To Be

    Latino Racial Reporting in the US: To Be or Not To Be Sociology Compass Volume 7, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 390-403 DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12032 Clara E. Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology Fordham University Michael H. Miyawaki Fordham University Grigoris Argeros, Assistant Professor of Sociology Mississippi State University This review focuses on how Latinos report their race.…

  • Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity

    Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity New York University Press July 2000 283 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780814775479 Clara E. Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology Fordham University Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the United States. Through their language and popular music Latinos are making their mark on American culture as…