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  • Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics

    Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics Peter Lang 2008 261 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-09-3 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-04-8 Peter Burke University of Cambridge Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke Centre for Latin American Studies University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian,…

  • Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites

    Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites University of Washington News 2012-07-10 Molly McElroy Researchers who studied a large sample of middle- and high-school students in Washington state found that mixed-race adolescents are more similar to their white counterparts than previously believed.   Experts have thought that multiracial adolescents, the fastest growing…

  • Lecture: Unbearable Blackness

    Lecture: Unbearable Blackness Terror and the Inhuman (2012-10-25 through 2012-10-27) Brown University Sidney Frank Hall, Room 220 185 Meeting St. 2012-10-25, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine The Department of Modern Culture and Media presents a lecture by Jared Sexton…

  • Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human”

    Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human” Social Text Volume 30, Number 3 112 pages 97-121 DOI: 10.1215/01642472-1597350 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania From the moment Charles Darwin proposed Africa as the site of human origins, scientists and…

  • The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920)

    The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920) Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 89, Number 3 (2009) pages 435-470 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2009-002 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and…

  • Glenn Robinson—Dedicated to Erasing Hate & Mixing Cultures

    Glenn Robinson—Dedicated to Erasing Hate & Mixing Cultures Mixed Race Radio Wednesday, 2012-10-24, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT, 17:00 BST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Glenn Robinson, Creator/Owner Community Village Activist Glenn Robinson is an Irish, German, Dutch, English & Austrian American married to a Spanish & Indigenous Mexican American. They have two children and encourage…

  • From Paranoid to Reparative: Narratives of Cultural Identification in the Social Sciences

    From Paranoid to Reparative: Narratives of Cultural Identification in the Social Sciences Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2012 pages 193-211 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2012.0007 Ashley Barnwell, Ashworth Lecturer in Sociology School of Social and Political Sciences University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia This article tries to draw out the complexity with which…

  • Drawn in Bloodlines: Blood, Pollution, Identity, and Vampires in Japanese Society

    Drawn in Bloodlines: Blood, Pollution, Identity, and Vampires in Japanese Society University of Texas, Austin May 2012 117 pages Benjamin Paul Miller Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis is an examination…

  • Perceived discrimination, group identification, and life satisfaction among multiracial people: A test of the rejection-identification model.

    Perceived discrimination, group identification, and life satisfaction among multiracial people: A test of the rejection-identification model. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 18, Number 4 (October 2012) pages 319-328 DOI: 10.1037/a0029729 Lisa S. Giamo Department of Psychology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Michael T. Schmitt, Associate Professor of Psychology Simon Fraser University,…

  • Amerasians

    Amerasians Atmo 1998-10-22 52 minutes Erik Gandini, Director/Producer In 1988, after the Congress passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act, Vietnamese youngsters who could prove they had been fathered by an American were issued with a ticket for the U.S. and granted six months ”upkeep”. Overnight, society’s lowest ranks became ”golden children”, able to take a whole…