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  • Even The Rivers: A film about educating South Korea’s multiethnic generation.

    Even The Rivers: A film about educating South Korea’s multiethnic generation. April 2013 Cindy Lou Howe, Director Matt Kelley, Producer Uikwon Lee, Researcher “In 10 years, even the rivers and mountains change.” —Korean proverb South Korea has seemingly always known dramatic change. Created after Japanese colonization and a devastating civil war, the nation became one…

  • Race doesn’t fit in a checkbox

    Race doesn’t fit in a checkbox Arkansas Times Little Rock, Arkansas 2013-05-02 Gene Lyons Lamentably, the Boston Marathon bombing re-opened some of the most poisonous arguments in American life. Specifically, are the Tsarnaev brothers “white”? It’s a meaningless question. Some hotheads couldn’t wait to declare all Muslims suspect. Certain thinkers on the left (David Sirota,…

  • What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans

    America is preoccupied with race statistics–perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side?

  • How to update census’ race question

    How to update census’ race question The Chicago Tribune 2013-05-05 Clarence Page Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page prefers an America where diversity and unique ethnicities are celebrated, not homogenized. A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my eye recently. It appeared on the black-oriented TheRoot.com website under this…

  • Solo Show at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity

    Solo Show at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity Public Affairs & Communications University of California, Santa Barbara News Release 2013-05-01 Contact: Andrea Estrada: 805-893-4620; George Foulsham: 805-893-3071 Multimedia performance is produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay Carter (Santa Barbara, Calif.)—When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of…

  • One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval (at University of California, Santa Barbara)

    One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval (at University of California, Santa Barbara) University of California, Santa Barbara MultiCultural Center Theater [Directions] [Map] University Center, Room 1504 Tuesday, 2013-05-07, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director Produced by: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay…

  • Contact of Races in Brazil

    Contact of Races in Brazil Social Forces Volume 19, Number 4 (May, 1941) pages 533-538 DOI: 10.2307/2571211 Arthur Ramos University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL, as well as other American countries, was originally a land of conquests; the growth of its population has developed by the contact or confluence of European settlers with the…

  • “Colorblindness” Overlooks Structural Inequality

    “Colorblindness” Overlooks Structural Inequality Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-04-30 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Good morning.  Thanks to all who have been tracking with our multi-part series on Critical Race Theory and Christianity.  It seems like…

  • Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race

    Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race Social Forces Volume 85, Issue 1 pages 57-74 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0141 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Social constructivist theories of race suggest no two measures of race will capture the same information, but the degree of “error” this creates…

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review]

    Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review] Journal of American History Volume 99, Issue 4 (2013) pages 1285-1286 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jas672 David FitzGerald, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.…