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  • We the “White”” People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902

    We the “White”” People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University September 2003 92 pages Jeremy Boggs In 1902. in an effort to reestablish what they saw as whites’ natural right to control government rule over blacks, the delegates to Virginia’s Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 declared the new…

  • Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20 Century American Thought

    Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20 Century American Thought Columbia University December 2008 309 pages Michael Yudell Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences At the dawn of the 21st…

  • Obama as Anti-American: Visual Folklore in Right-Wing Forwarded E-mails and Construction of Conservative Social Identity

    Obama as Anti-American: Visual Folklore in Right-Wing Forwarded E-mails and Construction of Conservative Social Identity Journal of American Folklore Volume 125, Number 496, Spring 2012 pages 177-203 DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2012.0018 Margaret Duffy, Associate Professor of Journalism University of Missouri Janis Teruggi Page George Washington University Rachel Young Missouri School of Journalism This paper investigates the group-building…

  • The ‘Other’ from within: Afro-Germans as Scapegoats for the post-WWII German Society

    The ‘Other’ from within: Afro-Germans as Scapegoats for the post-WWII German Society Postgraduate History Conference: Creating the ‘Other’ Department of History, University of Essex 2011-09-20 Antje Friedrich Department of English Literature University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany The theme of the graduate conference this year was ‘Creating the ‘Other’’ throughout history.  We were very pleased to…

  • ‘Mutts like Me’: Multiracial Students’ Perceptions of Barack Obama

    ‘Mutts like Me’: Multiracial Students’ Perceptions of Barack Obama Qualitative Sociology Volume 35, Number 2 (2012) pages 183-200 DOI: 10.1007/s11133-012-9226-4 Michael P. Jeffries, Assistant Professor of American Studies Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Existent sociological studies of multiracialism in the United States focus on identity construction, the cultural and legislative battle over multiracial categorization, and the…

  • Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds

    Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds Rutgers University Press 2005-05-18 264 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3586-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3585-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-3757-3 Erica Chito Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial…

  • The Mixed-race MilkBite™

    The Mixed-race MilkBite™ Brad’s Blog: musings on sociology, religion, higher ed, and whatever else is going on in my life 2012-04-16 Bradley Koch, Assistant Professor of Sociology Georgia College & State University Here are a few commercials for the new MilkBite™ from Kraft. They play on stereotypes about mixed-race individuals. There are other spots on…

  • In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race

    In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race The Guardian 2007-07-11 Timothy Garton Ash By its own definition it is a mixed country, but extreme poverty and violence occur mainly at one end of the spectrum Some time ago, Brazil’s census takers asked people to describe their skin colour.…

  • Race, Religion, and Caste: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives

    Race, Religion, and Caste: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives Comparative Sociology Volume 1, Issue 2 (2002) pages 115-126 DOI: 10.1163/156913302100418457 T. K. Oommen, Professsor Emeritus Jawaharlal Nehru University Although race as a biological concept has no validity, racism persists. In spite of the fact that caste is a social construct caste discrimination continues. To understand the…

  • Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity

    Taking a social psychological approach, this book identifies influencing factors and several underlying processes shaping racial identity. Unlike previous studies which examine racial identity as if it was a one-dimensional concept, this book examines two dimensions of identity—a public dimension (how they identify themselves to others) and an internalized dimension (how they see themselves internally)—noting…