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  • Assimilating Hawai‘i: Racial Science in a Colonial “Laboratory,” 1919-1939

    Assimilating Hawai‘i: Racial Science in a Colonial “Laboratory,” 1919-1939 University of Minnesota July 2012 322 pages Christine Leah Manganaro A DISSERTATION IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation demonstrates how American physical anthropologists and sociologists working in Hawai‘i framed the biological and cultural assimilation of mixed race…

  • Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies

    Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies University of Georgia Press 2013-02-01 288 pages 5 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-4435-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4436-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4479-9 Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies Duke University With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies…

  • Interracial Brooklyn

    Interracial Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations September 2012 Michael J. Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology Stanford University Intermarriage has been rising in the United States steadily since about 1960. Before 1960 there were so few interracial marriages in the United States that Interraciality was really invisible. Prior to 1960, the idea of…

  • “Vulnerable” Populations—Medicine, Race, and Presumptions of Identity

    “Vulnerable” Populations—Medicine, Race, and Presumptions of Identity   Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 13, Number 2 (February 2011) pages 124-127 Karla F. C. Holloway, Ph.D., MLS, James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law Duke University, Durham, North Carolina At the beginning of the twentieth century, renowned sociologist William…

  • Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista

    This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America

  • The Dougla in Trinidad’s Consciousness

    The Dougla in Trinidad’s Consciousness History in Action: Online Journal of The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine. Trinidad and Tobago) Dept. of History Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2011) 7 pages ISSN: 2221-7886 Feme Louanne Regis University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad is a complex multi-ethnic society where…

  • Latin America and mixed heritage

    Latin America and mixed heritage The Prisma: The Multicultural Newspaper Westwood Hill, London, United Kingdom 2012-08-27 Claudio Chipana (Translated by Viv Griffiths) “…we are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers…” Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). People of mixed heritage, mestizos,…

  • Q&A: Professor examines those ‘outside the color lines’ in new book

    Q&A: Professor examines those ‘outside the color lines’ in new book University of Wisconsin-Madison News 2012-10-20 Jenney Price The history of segregation in the United States is often seen in black and white. Leslie Bow, professor of English and Asian American studies, is interested in the experiences of communities that fell outside those color lines.…

  • “What About the Children?” The Psychological and Social Well-Being of Multiracial Adolescents

    “What About the Children?” The Psychological and Social Well-Being of Multiracial Adolescents The Sociological Quarterly Volume 47, Issue 1 (February 2006) pages 147–173 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2006.00041.x Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck University of Wisconsin–Madison We used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the social…

  • Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project

    Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project Chapter in: Race Struggles University of Illinois Press 2009 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in.; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07648-0 Edited by: Theodore Koditschek, Professor of History University of Missouri, Columbia Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Illinois,…