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  • Race relations in Angola

    Race relations in Angola This is Africa: Africa for a New Generation 2012-09-26 Lula Ahrens ANGOLA, LUANDA | “Angolan women don’t like the Portuguese,” says Amelia (30, office cleaner) in a matter-of-fact manner to This is Africa. If you’re not familiar with Angola you might expect this to be the start of a rant against…

  • “Wait . . . they had a white baby?!?!”

    “Wait . . . they had a white baby?!?!” Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-09-01 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University My niece recently had a baby, a beautiful boy. The proud grandmother showed the photo of the newborn to family members and everyone oohed and aahed. One of his cousins looked at the picture and said, “Oh he’s so…

  • Race and a Political Race

    Race and a Political Race Everyday Sociology Blog 2012-09-28 Jonathan R. Wynn, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dwanna L. Robertson University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Massachusetts Senate race between incumbent Scott Brown and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren took an unexpected sharp turn this week. Shades of racialized language (reminiscent of the…

  • Of Susie Guillory Phipps and Chief Redbone: The Mutability of Race

    Of Susie Guillory Phipps and Chief Redbone: The Mutability of Race Newhouse News Service 1992-07-09 Jonathan Tilove Black is black and white is white, but what about Susie Guillory Phipps? Phipps looks white. She always thought she was white. So did her first and second husbands. Until, at the age of 43, she discovered she…

  • Skeptic’s Café: Understanding Popular Uses of Percentages

    Consider this paragraph from a New York Times article about the increase in multiracial people in the latest 2010 U.S. Census: “In North Carolina, the mixed-race population doubled. In Georgia, it expanded by more than 80 percent, and by nearly as much in Kentucky and Tennessee. In Indiana, Iowa and South Dakota, the multiracial population…

  • Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

    Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit’s Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to…

  • The colour of money in multiracial Jamaica

    The colour of money in multiracial Jamaica The Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica, West Indies 2012-09-23 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica On a flight from Miami several years ago, I sat next to a little girl who seemed to be about 10 or so years of age.…

  • Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire Among Asian American/ White Couples

    Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire Among Asian American/ White Couples Rutgers University Press June 2009 208 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4533-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4532-5 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-4852-4 Kumiko Nemoto, Associate Professor of Sociology Western Kentucky University Despite being far from the norm, interracial relationships are more popular than ever. Racing Romance…

  • Argentina: Land of the Vanishing Blacks

    Argentina: Land of the Vanishing Blacks Ebony Magazine October 1973 pages 74-85 Era Bell Thompson Once outnumbering whites five to one, blacks were absorbed and inundated by massive immigration “If you are looking for black people, why,” they asked helpfully, “did you come to Argentina? Why don’t you go to Brazil?” Well, I had been…

  • Afroargentines

    Afroargentines The Argentina Independent 2007-03-23 Laura Balfour As a descendant of two slaves, Maria Lamadrid has a hard time biting her tongue when airport officials think her Argentine passport is not real because ‘there are no blacks in Argentina’.   And that was in 2002.   The 25th of March marks the landmark 200th anniversary…