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  • Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘settled’ Australia

    Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘settled’ Australia Aboriginal Studies Press 1988; Reprinted 1991 288 pages 240×170 mm ISBN: 9780855751852 Edited by: Ian Keen, Visiting Fellow School of Archaeology and Anthropology College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University This volume brings together results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people…

  • The Negro Race and European Civilization

    The Negro Race and European Civilization American Journal of Sociology Volume 11, Number 2 (September 1905) pages 145-167 Paul S. Reinsch  (1869-1923), Professor University of Wisconsin While in the past century populations and racial elements which had formerly been far distant from each other have been brought into intimate contact, the twentieth century will witness…

  • Opinion: Black Americans must embrace true colors

    Opinion: Black Americans must embrace true colors In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-15 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s note: Historian and author Tiya Miles is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Afroamerican and African…

  • The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams

    The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams The American Prospect 2012-06-14 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer Liberals are counting on population trends to doom 
Republicans to a long-term minority. They shouldn’t. If Democrats agree on anything, it’s that they will eventually be on the winning side. The white Americans who tend to vote Republican are shrinking as a percentage…

  • President Obama on “The View”

    President Obama on “The View” Sojourners: Faith in Action for Social Justice 2010-08-02 Valerie Elverton Dixon Just Peace Theory President Obama visited with the five hosts of the ABC daytime talk show “The View.” People complained. He should have gone to the Boy Scout gathering. The office of the presidency ought to be above such…

  • How Is Biracialism Changing America – And The Jewish community?

    How Is Biracialism Changing America – And The Jewish community? RepairLabs: Resources and strategies for volunteer engagement and Jewish Service-Learning 2012-02-10 Diane Tobin, President Institute for Jewish & Community Research As the parent of a Black Jewish child, I want my son to feel at home in the Jewish community. It seems to me that…

  • “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity and the Social Construction of Race in the U.S.

    “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity and the Social Construction of Race in the U.S. University of North Texas May 2012 165 pages Starita Smith Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation is a qualitative study of racially ambiguous people and their life experiences. Racially ambiguous people are individuals who are frequently…

  • “Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I)

    “Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I) Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-01-03 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles I’m a “Chino-Chicano.” I was born in East Los Angeles and raised in the small town of Hacienda…

  • Catching Up With Black in America’s Soledad O’Brien

    Catching Up With Black in America’s Soledad O’Brien Clutch Magazine 2012-12-14 Zettler Clay A while ago, I took my little cousins to Toys “R” Us. Three of them. 8 years old, 6 years old, 4 years old. It was going smoothly enough until we came across a row of dolls. There were two on the…

  • Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought

    Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought University of Notre Dame Press 2011 376 pages ISBN 10: 0-268-02982-2 ISBN 13: 978-0-268-02982-1 Edited by: Jorge J. E. Gracia, Samuel P. Capen Chair; SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature State University of New York, Buffalo Forging People explores the way…