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  • Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities

    Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities Law & Society Review Volume 41, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 587–618 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x Deenesh Sohoni, Associate Professor of Sociology The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia In this article, I use state-level anti-miscegenation legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became…

  • How Jews Became White Folks and What That says about Race in America

    How Jews Became White Folks and What That says about Race in America Rutgers University Press 1998-10-01 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-2589-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2590-7 Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles A wide-ranging and provocative assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. We…

  • Will new age of mixed-race identities loosen the hold of race or tie it up in tighter knots?

    Ward Connerly, who describes himself as a roughly equal mix of French Canadian, Choctaw, African and Irish ancestry and who is married to a white woman, spent much of the last decade campaigning to end race-based affirmative action. Susan Graham, a white woman married to a black man, has spent that same decade working tirelessly…

  • Almost White

    Almost White Macmillan 1963 212 pages Original Classication ID: E184.A1 B53 Source: University of Michigan via The Hathi Trust Digital Library Brewton Berry Contents Preface 1. The Myth of the Vanishing Indian 2. Where Are They? 3. Who Are They? 4. What the Whites Believe 5. What the Negro Thinks 6. Etiquette 7. How They…

  • New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary

    New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary A Work-In-Progress Documentary Eli Steele, Producer With more Americans marrying across the color line today than before, it is inevitable that the racial makeup of America’s face will forever change. Of the nine million individuals that identified themselves as multiracial on the 2010 census, more than 50…

  • The Biological Status and Social Worth of the Mulatto

    The United States has something more than a “negro problem”; it has a mulatto problem. Our 10,000,000 coloredd fellow-citizens comprise somewhat less than 8,000,000 full-blooded negroes; approximately 2,000,000 contain varying percentages of “white” blood.  This “white man’s burden” has several cardinal aspects, notably, social, economic and political.

  • Film & Literary Festival Awards 2012 Loving Prize to UCSB’s G. Reginald Daniel

    Film & Literary Festival Awards 2012 Loving Prize to UCSB’s G. Reginald Daniel University of California, Santa Barbara Office of Public Affairs 2012-07-25 CONTACT Andrea Estrada: 805-893-4620 George Foulsham: 805-893-3071 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– G. Reginald Daniel, a professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, has received the 2012 Loving Prize from the Mixed Roots…

  • Racial Theories (2nd Edition)

    This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton’s classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific…

  • Brazil’s New Racial Politics

    Brazil’s New Racial Politics Lynne Rienner Publishers 2009 251 pages ISBN: 978-1-58826-666-8 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Political Science University of South Florida Gladys L. Mitchell (Gladys Mitchell-Walthour), Assistant Professor of Political Science Denison University, Granville, Ohio As the popular myth of racial equality in Brazil crumbles beneath the weight of current grassroots…

  • The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The Normal Science of American Racial Thought

    The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The Normal Science of American Racial Thought California Law Review Volume 85, Issue 5 (1997) pages 1213-1258 Juan F. Perea, Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth Professor of Law University of Florida This Article is about how we are taught to think about race. In particular, I intend…