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  • Authors Probe Roots of U.S. Far Right

    A bumper crop of works on influential early 20th century American racists, fascists and eugenicists has been hitting the bookshelves in 2009. Two of the most interesting are on Madison Grant (1865-1937), perhaps the most important conservationist of his time and so pernicious a racist and anti-Semite that he helped inspire Hitler’s policies, and Lawrence…

  • “Which box am I?”: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico

    “Which box am I?”: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey August 2009 59 pages Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College,…

  • Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay

    Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay University of North Carolina Press October 2010 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 14 illus., 9 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3417-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-7158-4 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh 2011 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American…

  • Beyoncé, beauty and the all mighty dollar

    Beyoncé, beauty and the all mighty dollar Insight News Minneapolis, Minnesota 2012-03-09 Irma McClaurin, Ph.D., Culture and Education Editor Just for the record, we are not in, nor has there ever been, a post-racial moment in America.  And so, we must dive deep into historical memory of this country to understand why all the fuss…

  • As Racist as We Wish to Be: Project RACE, “The Talk”, Obama and the Fear of Blackness

    As Racist as We Wish to Be: Project RACE, “The Talk”, Obama and the Fear of Blackness MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-04-10 Steven F. Riley Late last year, I opined about the inability of some activists in the multiracial identity movement to combat racism.  It is difficult to combat racism if you are not anti-racist and quite impossible…

  • Dorothy Roberts Debunks Race as Biological in “Fatal Invention”

    Dorothy Roberts Debunks Race as Biological in “Fatal Invention” Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies 2012-01-15 Ytasha L. Womack, Contributor Dorothy Roberts is author of the book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 2011). She is also the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University…

  • Children of the Vietnam War

    Children of the Vietnam War Smithsonian Magazine June 2009 David Lamb Born overseas to Vietnamese mothers and U.S. servicemen, Amerasians brought hard-won resilience to their lives in America They grew up as the leftovers of an unpopular war, straddling two worlds but belonging to neither. Most never knew their fathers. Many were abandoned by their…

  • Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia

    Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia University of Virginia Press November 2008 312 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 9780813927558 Ebook ISBN: 9780813930343 Gregory Michael Dorr, Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Amherst College Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines…

  • Multi-ethnic Koreans find help with assimilation through MACK Foundation

    Multi-ethnic Koreans find help with assimilation through MACK Foundation The Korea Times 2012-04-25 A “typical Korean” probably wouldn’t call Yang Chan-wook a typical Korean, but he wants to be seen that way. The 37-year-old is a multi-ethnic Korean, part Korean from his mother’s side and part African-American from his father’s side. And he’s working towards…

  • The Social Construction of Race and Monacan Education in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908–1965: Monacan Perspectives

    The Social Construction of Race and Monacan Education in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908–1965: Monacan Perspectives History of Education Quarterly Volume 47, Issue 4 (November 2007) pages 389–415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5959.2007.00107.x Melanie D. Haimes-Bartolf Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia That’s all you heard, everywhere we went, or whatever we done, “oh, he’s one of those issues.” We…