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  • Human Migration and the Marginal Man

    Human Migration and the Marginal Man The American Journal of Sociology Volume 33, Number 6 (May 1928) pages 881-893 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Migrations, with all the incidental collision, conflicts, and fusions of peoples and of cultures which they occasion, have been accounted among the decisive forces in history.…

  • HCOL 86 E: D1: Mixed: Multiracialism in U.S. Culture

    HCOL 86 E: D1: Mixed: Multiracialism in U.S. Culture University of Vermont The Honors College Spring 2013 John Gennari, Associate Professor of English This seminar will examine the theme of multiracial identity and culture in the United States. We’ll consider how U.S. concepts and ideologies of race have developed historically, and why within that history…

  • Covering Multiracial America Requires Historical Perspective

    Covering Multiracial America Requires Historical Perspective Maynard Media Center on Structural Inequity Maynard Institute 2012-11-14 Nadra Kareem Nittle Although people of mixed races have lived in the United States for centuries, authorities on multiracial identity say mainstream media continue to report on these people as if they are a new phenomenon. In 1619, the first…

  • Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy

    Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy American Journal of Public Health Volume 91, Number 7 (July 2001) pages 1049-1056 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.91.7.1049 Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently recommended that the National Institutes of Health…

  • Strange Fruit: Dr. Yaba Blay’s (1)ne Drop Project; Director Kenny Leon

    Strange Fruit: Dr. Yaba Blay’s (1)ne Drop Project; Director Kenny Leon WFPL 89.3 FM Louisville, Kentucky 2012-11-03 Laura Ellis, Producer Who is black? That’s the question the (1)ne Drop Project seeks to answer. The project, created by Dr. Yaba Blay, features photographs of people who identify as black, African-American, biracial, and other identities—but whose physical…

  • “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race

    “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race New York University Press October 2011 229 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780814752975 Paperback ISBN: 9780814752982 Enid Lynette Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States.  In the weeks…

  • Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism

    For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California…

  • A Milestone Election

    A Milestone Election Weekend Reader Hannah Arendt Center Bard College 2012-11-09 Roger Berkowitz, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Human Rights, and Philosophy; Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York The re-election of Barack Obama is a milestone. Barack Obama will always be remembered as the first black President of the United States.…

  • Should people’s ethnicity matter in their medical treatment?

    Should people’s ethnicity matter in their medical treatment? OnCentral Southern California Public Radio 2012-10-24 José Martinez Chances are, medical research has found that your ethnicity makes you more likely to have certain conditions or diseases. For Latinos, it’s diabetes. For black folks, it’s high blood pressure. For white people, it’s cystic fibrosis. For Asian women,…

  • Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race

    Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race Center for Genetics and Society 2012-05-24 Despite the fact that advances in genetics undermine the notion that discrete and distinct racial groups exist at the biological level, the science of genetics is inadvertently reinforcing the myth that race is a biological, rather than a social, category. In…