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  • Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘Postracism’ and Hegemonic White Supremacy in the Campaign and Election of Barack Obama

    Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘Postracism’ and Hegemonic White Supremacy in the Campaign and Election of Barack Obama Critical Race Inquiry Volume 1, Number 2 (May 2011) ISSN: 1925-3850 Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada The essay provides a socio-historical account of the role that hegemonic white supremacy played in the…

  • In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race

    In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race The Philadelphia Inquirer 2011-05-25 John Timpane, Inquirer Staff Writer President Obama’s one-day visit to Ireland was a masterly orchestration of three visuals – one imaginary, two very real. Imaginary visual: the apostrophe in O’Bama. “My name is Barack Obama,” he said in Dublin,…

  • Who Are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse

    Who Are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse Sociological Perspectives Volume 54, Number 2 (Summer 2011) pages. 139-162 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2011.54.2.139 Jennifer A. Jones, SBS Diversity Post Doctoral Fellow Ohio State University, Columbus Multiracials have the flexibility to opt out of multiracial identity, to shift identities depending on context and are…

  • The Mixing of Races and Social Decay

    The Mixing of Races and Social Decay Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 1 (April 1949) pages 11–16 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, Sc.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Biship of Birmingham, England I have chosen to address you on a subject of great importance. With regard to it strong differences of opinion exist. As we consider various…

  • The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries

    The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 4 (January 1941) pages 114-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge In a recently published and noteworthy symposium entitled “Race Relations and the Race Problem,” eleven prominent American writers reviewed the sociological implications…

  • Half-Hearted Loving

    Half-Hearted Loving The Faculty Lounge: Conversations about law, culture, and academia 2011-06-13 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Yesterday, June 12, marked the annual celebration of Loving Day.  This event commemorated the 1967 Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated the state’s Racial Integrity Act that prohibited interracial marriages.  Notably, Virginia’s…

  • Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past

    Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past University of California Press November 2003 332 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520240704 David R. Roediger, Babcock Professor of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign David R. Roediger’s powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a “still white” nation.…

  • Obama’s Mixed Heritage: A Mother’s Perspective

    It’s an interesting historical moment to be a white mother of a Black child, as another white mother’s Black child is running for president of the United States. Who’d have thought?

  • Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn

    Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, New York April 2011 Project Description Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (CBBG) is a public programming series and oral history project about mixed-heritage families, race, ethnicity, culture, and identity, infused with historical perspective. CBBG is currently in the planning phase (April 2011 – March…

  • Saturday Night with Esme Murphy Featuring Ulli K. Ryder

    Saturday Night with Esme Murphy Featuring Ulli K. Ryder Saturday Night with Esme Murphy WCCO News Radio 830 Minneapolis, Minnesota 2011-06-18, 23:00-03:00Z (18:00-22:00 CDT/19:00-23:00 EDT/16:00-20:00 PDT) Esme Murphy, Host Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University The interview will air this Saturday, 2011-06-18 at 19:05…