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  • Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore

    Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2009-10-18 through 2009-10-22 Coex, Seoul, Korea 9 pages Leong Koon Chan, Associate Professor School of Design Studies University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Multiracialism and bilingualism are key concepts for national ideology and policy in the management of…

  • Anthropology at the Washington Meeting for 1911

    Anthropology at the Washington Meeting for 1911 Science Magazine Volume 35, Number 904 (1912-04-26) pages 665-676 DOI: 10.1126/science.35.904.665 George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947), Assistant Professor of Archæology Yale University The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association was held in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., December 27-30, 1911, in affiliation with Section H of…

  • Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy

    Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy Global Dialogue Volume 12, Number 2 (Summer/Autumn 2010)—Race and Racisms ISSN 1986-2601 Andrea Smith, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies University of California, Riverside Many scholars in Native studies have argued that the field has been co-opted by broader discourses, such as ethnic studies or post-colonial studies. Their contention…

  • The Free People of Color In Louisiana and St. Domingue: A Comparative Portrait of Two Three-Caste Slave Societies

    Recently historians of slavery in the Americas have been engaged in a heated debate over the widely differing racial patterns that emerged in the slave societies of this hemisphere. Despite their often bitter disagreements over the origins of these patterns, most agree that it was the treatment and position of the ex-slave in these societies…

  • Derek Jeter embodies MLK’s dream

    Derek Jeter embodies MLK’s dream ESPN New York 2012-01-16 Wallace Matthews Biracial Yankees captain a symbol of the America Martin Luther King once envisioned When the average person thinks of Derek Jeter, he or she is likely to think of the 3,000 hits, or the five World Series rings, or the highlight reel full of…

  • Call at Rio fashion show for more black models

    Call at Rio fashion show for more black models Agence France-Presse 2012-01-14 Only a handful of black models sashayed down the catwalk at this week’s Rio fashion show, sparking fresh calls for quotas to ensure greater diversity in a country where more than half of the population is of African ancestry. Some 24 labels displayed…

  • For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color

    For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color The New York Times 2012-01-13 Mireya Navarro Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15…

  • What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race?

    What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race? Psychology Today 2011-12-06 Jefferson Fish, Ph.D. Problems with Brazilian and U.S. census data on race. In 2010 I posted a six-part series on the U. S. census and race (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). In it I pointed out numerous changes in race categories and…

  • Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore

    Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs Volume 30, Number 3 (2011) pages 95-131 ISSN: 1868-4882 (online), ISSN: 1868-1034 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore “Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization…

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium

    According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems until people understand that separate human races do not exist empirically. With the biological basis for race removed, racism becomes an ideology, one that can and must be expunged.