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  • CNN DIALOGUES: The 2010 Census and the New America?

    CNN DIALOGUES: The 2010 Census and the New America? The Cecil B. Day Chapel of The Carter Center  453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA, 30307 2011-08-31, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Moderator: Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Lead Political Anchor and Anchor of “The Situation Room” Panelists: Heidi W. Durrow, author of the debut novel The Girl Who Fell…

  • The Arabs of Africa

    The Arabs of Africa Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 1 (1972) pages 1-9 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969036 Ali Mazruia, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities State University of New York, Binghamton The combination of acculturation and inter-mating between races might be called a process of biocultural assimilation Some degree of integration between groups is achieved by…

  • Tune Your Engine – What is a New Zealander?

    Tune Your Engine – What is a New Zealander? Afternoons with Jim Mora Radio New Zealand National 2011-08-02, 03:10Z (15:10 NZT) Jim Mora, Presenter Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology National University of Singapore Zarine Rocha is a research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.…

  • Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue

    Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 6 (July 2009) Special Issue: Making Latino/a Identities in Contemporary America pages 1071-1082 DOI: 10.1080/01419870902883536 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Christina A. Sue commented on…

  • Campus Colorlines: The Changing Boundaries of Race Within Institutions of Higher Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Campus Colorlines: The Changing Boundaries of Race Within Institutions of Higher Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era University of Southern California August 2007 675 pages Patricia Elizabeth Literte, Assistant Professor of Sociology California State University, Fullerton A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School University of Southern California In Partial Fulfillment of the…

  • Half-white is an insult

    Half-white is an insult The Guardian 2008-11-13 Michael Paulin The debate over how black Obama is obscures the racial reconciliation his election represents Barack Hussein Obama’s stunning victory against what was a thoroughly cynical Clinton campaign and a confused and morally bankrupt conservative Republican opposition is as historically significant as the fall of the Berlin…

  • A Multiracial Movement and a Multiracial Box Won’t Solve the Racism Problem

    A Multiracial Movement and a Multiracial Box Won’t Solve the Racism Problem Rachel’s Tavern: Race, Gender, and Sexuality from a Sociological Perspective 2007-04-02 Rachel Sullivan, Associate Professor of Sociology Montgomery College, Germantown, Maryland In a comment on the last thread on Rachel’s Tavern about how biracial children affect family approval of black/white relationships Dave of…

  • Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech

    Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture Volume 10, Number 1 (2011) 18 pages Bridget Byrne, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences University of Manchester This article takes the speech that Barack Obama made in his campaign for…

  • Rhetoric, Identity and the Obama Racial Phenomenon: Exploring Obama’s Title as the “First Black President”

    Rhetoric, Identity and the Obama Racial Phenomenon: Exploring Obama’s Title as the “First Black President” Wichita State University May 2010 75 pages Krystal Cole A Thesis by Krystal Cole Bachelors of Communications, Southwestern College, 2008 Submitted to the Department of Communication and the faculty of the Graduate School of Wichita State University in partial fulfillment…

  • Identity Politics: The Ambiguity of Race and the “End of Racism”

    Identity Politics: The Ambiguity of Race and the “End of Racism” The Atlanta Post 2011-07-11 Ezinne Adibe Professor and author Kwasi Konadu discusses identity politics and what it means to be African One hundred years from now what weight will race and/or ethnicity have on our understanding of identity?  Are we moving towards a society…