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  • Ralina Joseph discusses her book Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial

    Ralina Joseph discusses her book Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial Weekday with Steve Scher KUOW.org 94.9 FM Seattle News & Information 2013-04-15 Steve Scher, Host Also this hour: Everett Herald reporter and columnist Jerry Cornfield catches us up on what’s happening this week in Olympia. Then, University of Washington…

  • JANM Show Looks at Mixed Ancestry

    JANM Show Looks at Mixed Ancestry Los Angeles Downtown News 2013-04-15 Richard Guzmán DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – The very title of the new Japanese American National Museum exhibit indicates the complex factors at play in a single community. The show, Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History, examines the diverse history of the Japanese…

  • The Racial Middle On-line Survey

    The Racial Middle On-line Survey On behalf of Dr. Reanne Frank and Dr. Jennifer Jones of The Ohio State University, we invite you to take part in our research study, which concerns the development of racial identity among multiracials. There are no foreseeable significant direct benefits to you by participating in this research. However, we…

  • A Foot in Both Worlds: Asian Americans’ Perceptions of Asian, White, and Racially Ambiguous Faces

    A Foot in Both Worlds: Asian Americans’ Perceptions of Asian, White, and Racially Ambiguous Faces Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Volume 11, Number 2 (April 2008) pages 182–200 DOI: 10.1177/1368430207088037 Eve C. Willadsen-Jensen University of Colorado, Boulder Tiffany A. Ito, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience University of Colorado, Boulder Past research on racial perception has…

  • The Mismeasure of Man

    The Mismeasure of Man W. W. Norton & Company June 1996 (Originally published in 1981) 448 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31425-0 Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Harvard University The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition)

    Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy

    Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy Cognella 2011 436 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-93555-160-7 Edited by: Rashawn Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations…

  • Ambiguity and the Timecourse of Racial Perception

    Ambiguity and the Timecourse of Racial Perception Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic Volume 24, Number 5 (October 2006) pages 580-606 DOI: 10.1521/soco.2006.24.5.580 Eve C. Willadsen-Jensen University of Colorado, Boulder Tiffany A. Ito, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience University of Colorado, Boulder Two studies examined early perceptual processing and explicit racial categorization of racially ambiguous faces.…

  • The New Normal

    The New Normal The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-04-11 Mia Nakaji Monnier, Rafu Staff Writer Hapa Japan Festival and JANM exhibit celebrate mixed Japanese and Japanese Americans Outside the newest exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum hangs a banner. Up close, visitors can make out individual pictures—each about the size of…

  • The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians

    The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Center for Latin American Studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 2012 pages 30-32 Jean Spencer, Outreach and Publications Coordinator Center for Latin American Studies Is Brazil really a racial democracy? The idea of racial democracy, originally put forth by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto…