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  • Association for Asian American Studies 2012 Annual Conference

    Association for Asian American Studies 2012 Annual Conference Capitol Hilton Hotel 1001 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 2012-04-11 through 2012-04-14 Selected Sessions from Tentative Schedule Thursday, April 12: 13:15-14:45 (South American A) Exposing Truths: Re-Centering Filipina/o American Subjectivities Chair: Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, San Francisco State University “Passing It On: Mixed Filipina/o American PEP Teachers Facilitating…

  • Criollo, Mestizo, Mulato, LatiNegro, Indígena, White, or Black? The US Hispanic/Latino Population and Multiple Responses in the 2000 Census

    Criollo, Mestizo, Mulato, LatiNegro, Indígena, White, or Black? The US Hispanic/Latino Population and Multiple Responses in the 2000 Census American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1724-1727 Hortensia Amaro, Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and of Counseling Psychology Bouve College of Health Sciences Northeastern University Ruth E. Zambrana, Profesor of Womens…

  • For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds

    For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds The New York Times 2012-03-30 Rachel L. Swarns WHEN she was a philosophy student at Harvard College eight years ago, Liane Young never thought twice about all the interracial couples who flitted across campus, arm and arm, hand in hand. Most of her Asian friends had white boyfriends…

  • Black Orpheus and the Merging of two Brazilian Nations

    Black Orpheus and the Merging of two Brazilian Nations European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 71, October 2001 pages 107-115 Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos, Associate Professor of Sociology State University of Rio de Janeiro The second cinematic remake of the play ‘Orfeu da Conceição’ has sparked a new debate among filmmakers and…

  • Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

    Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas Michigan State University Press April 2012 344 pages 6 x 9, notes, references ISBN: 978-1-61186-040-5 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics University of South Florida Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies; Director of the Latin American Studies…

  • Invisible citizens?

    Invisible citizens? IDB America: Magazine of Inter-American Development Bank August 2001 Charo Quesada Censuses in many Latin American countries omit questions about race, rendering minority groups statistically invisible If we relied entirely on censuses to understand what the people of Latin America and the Caribbean look like, the picture that would emerge would be a…

  • Room for Debate: Brazil’s Racial Identity Challenge

    Room for Debate: Brazil’s Racial Identity Challenge The New York Times 2012-03-30 Jerry Dávila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History University of Illinois Peter Fry, Anthropolgist Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University Yvonne Maggie,…

  • Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil?

    Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 4, Issue 2, 1998 pages 201-234 DOI: 10.1080/13504639851807 Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Professor in Ethics Queen Mary University of London Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress…

  • Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics

    Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn, Germany Discussion Paper No. 6196 December 2011 34 pages Pierre-André Chiappori, E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics Columbia University Sonia Oreffice, Assistant Professor of Economics Universitat d’Alacant and IZA Climent Quintana-Domeque, Assistant Professor of Economics Universitat d’Alacant…

  • A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales

    A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn, Germany Discussion Paper No. 6394 February 2012 21 pages Zhiqiang Feng, Research Fellow University of St. Andrews Maarten van Ham, Professor of Urban Renewal Delft University of Technology and IZA Paul Boyle,…