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  • Race, Policy, and Culture: An Identity Crisis for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil

    Race, Policy, and Culture: An Identity Crisis for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil Melissa S. Creary, MPH, Doctoral Candidate Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts Emory University Professor Howard Kushner, Chair Professor Jeffrey Lesser, Co-Chair Abstract of Dissertation Prospectus In 2001, Cândida and Altair, a married couple, started a national organization to increase the rights of…

  • Researching ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’

    Researching ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’ Social Science Research: Discussing Methods and Resources The British Library 2012-11-19 This post discusses our latest Myths and Realities event on ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’ and points readers in the direction of some relevant British Library collections. On the evening of 13 November we hosted our latest Myths and Realities…

  • Engendering Racial Perceptions: An Intersectional Analysis of How Social Status Shapes Race

    Engendering Racial Perceptions: An Intersectional Analysis of How Social Status Shapes Race Gender & Society Published online before print: 2013-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/0891243213480262 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Intersectionality emphasizes that race, class, and gender distinctions are inextricably intertwined, but fully interrogating the…

  • the changing face of “caucasian”

    the changing face of “caucasian” The State 2013-04-21 Adam Rothstein, Insurgent Archivist and Researcher It’s been widely mentioned among a certain set on social media networks that the suspect in the Boston bombings is Chechen, and therefore, “Caucasian.” The good-natured purpose of this being to foil the usual insipid bigotry let loose in similar situations,…

  • Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940

    Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940 Australian National University Press October 2008 372 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1921313994; ISBN-13: 978-1921313998 Online ISBN: 9781921536007 Edited by: Bronwen Douglas, Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University Chris Ballard, Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University From the 18th…

  • AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics

    AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas.

  • The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Revised and Expanded Edition)

    The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Revised and Expanded Edition) Temple University Press March 2006 312 pages Paper ISBN: 978-1-59213-494-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-59213-493-9 Electronic Book ISBN:  978-1-59213-495-3 George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study…

  • Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future?

    Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future? Social Forces Volume 73, Issue 4 (1995) pages 1365-1383 DOI: 10.1093/sf/73.4.1365 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families University of Texas, Austin Americans are rapidly becoming an ethnically…

  • Critical Race Theory and Christianity: Race Is A Social Construction

    Critical Race Theory and Christianity: Race Is A Social Construction Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-04-16 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Good morning.  It’s taken me a little longer than usual to write this new post, but…

  • Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally

    Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays By Michele Norris 2013-04-17 Becky Christensen Ann Arbor, MI Despite growing up in a somewhat racially diverse area in the San Francisco Bay Area, I had never thought about the privileges I had based on being White until I read Peggy McIntosh’s “White:…