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  • The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool

    The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool The Sociological Review Volume 3, Issue 1 (July 1955) pages 65-75 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1955.tb01045.x Maurice Broody Some of the most urgent social problems of a cosmopolitan seaport city like Liverpool are problems of adjustment between ethnic minorities and the indigenous society into which they have migrated. This adjustment…

  • The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world

    The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world University of Houston, Clear Lake July 2009 180 pages Publication Number: AAT 1471005 ISBN: 9781109355192 Joel G. Carter THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The University of Houston Clear Lake In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF…

  • The Fear of Colonial Miscegenation in the British Colonies of Southeast Asia

    Between 1820 and 1923, European and American travelogue writers in the Southeast Asian British Colonies looked down upon Europeans participating in miscegenation with local women. They felt that it was a “barbaric” institution, and if Europeans participated in miscegenation, they were destroying the racial hierarchy that had been established during colonialism.

  • Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories

    Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories The Geographical Bulletin Gamma Theta Upsilon – The International Geographic Honor Socieety Volume 50-2, November 2009 pages 93-110 Serin D. Houston Department of Geography Syracuse University This paper examines personal and public portrayals of the self and family articulated by heterosexual mixed-race households living…

  • In search of the power of whiteness: A genealogical exploration of negotiated racial identities in America’s ethnic past

    In search of the power of whiteness: A genealogical exploration of negotiated racial identities in America’s ethnic past Communication Quarterly Volume 50, Issue 3-4 (2002) pages 391-409 DOI: 10.1080/01463370209385674 Roberto Avant‐Mier, Associate Professor of Communication University of Texas, El Paso Marouf Hasian Jr., Professor of Communation University of Utah In this essay, the authors explore…

  • Race in Brazil: Out of Eden

    Race in Brazil: Out of Eden The Economist 2003-07-03 Brazil used to think it could be colour-blind. Alas, no longer JOANA, an actress and student, is white, or at least that is what her birth certificate says. She has a white father, a mixed-race mother and skin the colour of cappuccino. But she considers herself…

  • Is the high value placed on the beauty of mulatas in Brazil an example of Brazil’s racial democracy or, in fact, an instance of its profound racism?

    Is the high value placed on the beauty of mulatas in Brazil an example of Brazil’s racial democracy or, in fact, an instance of its profound racism? IDEATE The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex Volume 6, Summer 2011 8 pages Bethan Rafferty SC386 Anthropology of Latin America: Race, Gender and Identity The role…

  • Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil

    Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil Ms. Magazine Blog 2010-06-11 Erica Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Model scouts strategically target towns in Southern Brazil to “find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in,” explains Alexei Barrionuevo…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America

    Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought

    Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought Duke University Press 1974 334 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-1320-5 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore’s intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in…