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  • So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity

    So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity Hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2013-04-05 through 2013-04-06 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its fifth annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Saturday, April 6, 2013…

  • Race Is a Four-Letter Word

    Race Is a Four-Letter Word National Film Board of Canada 2006 00:55:21 Sobaz Benjamin Speaking biologically, ‘race’ is a spectral concept. Black, brown, red, white, and yellow, considered purely as skin colours, merit no more significance than a tattoo. The ‘skin your’re in’ is about as meaningful as ectoplasm. Scientists remind us that not only…

  • The Colour of Beauty

    The Colour of Beauty National Film Board of Canada 2010 00:16:50 Elizabeth St. Philip Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She’s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies…

  • ‘Una Raza, Dos Etnias’: The Politics Of Be(com)ing/Performing ‘Afropanameño’

    ‘Una Raza, Dos Etnias’: The Politics Of Be(com)ing/Performing ‘Afropanameño’ Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 3, Issue 2, 2008 DOI: 10.1080/17442220802080519 pages 123-147 Renée Alexander Craft, Assistant Professor of Communications Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This article analyzes 20th-century black identity in Panamá by examining how two distinct points on a spectrum…

  • The Myths of Transcending Race and Post-Racialism

    The Myths of Transcending Race and Post-Racialism EthicsDaily.com 2008-11-11 Wendell Griffen, Visiting Professor of Law William H. Bowen School of Law University of Arkansas, Little Rock Rather than speaking about a color-blind or “post-racial” society, the pundits and other observers of the Obama election should hope that it marks a society committed to “post-racism.” Barack…

  • Blackness Is The Fulcrum

    Blackness Is The Fulcrum RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-05-04 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab I’m often asked why I’ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism. That might well be true since who doesn’t suffer…

  • What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of ‘mixed race’ as an identification

    What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of  ‘mixed race’ as an identification Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 4 (December 2002) pages 469-490 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020040201 Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Geography and Journalism University of Toronto In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of ‘mixed race’…

  • Teaching & Learning Guide for: Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data

    This guide accompanies the following article: Nikki Khanna, ‘Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data’, Sociology Compass 6/4 (2012): 316–331, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00454.x.

  • Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity?

    Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity? Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 14, Number 8 (August 2012) pages 657-663 Ramya Rajagopalan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Joan H. Fujimura, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology; Professor of Science and Technology Studies Robert F.…

  • Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line

    Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press) January 2002 416 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 1 halftone Paperback ISBN: 9780674006690 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory London School of Economics After all the “progress” made since World War II in matters pertaining to…