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  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

    Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…

  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America

    PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American

    Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-22 Stanford Scholar Investigates the “Mulatto Millennium” through Literature, Theatre, Art, & Pop Culture The United States has its first mixed race president, a man with a black African father and white American mother. Actress Halle Barry, golfer…

  • Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves

    Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves The Guardian 2010-08-25 Tom Phillip Interviewers plan to reach 190m people, including the long-ignored Kalunga, by motorbike, plane, canoe and donkey When Jorge Moreira de Oliveira’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather arrived in Brazil in the 18th century he was counted off the slave-ship, branded and dispatched to…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson] American Anthropologist Volume 110, Issue 1 (March 2008) pp. 79–80 ISSN 0002-7294; online ISSN 1548-1433 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00013.x Amanda Walker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? G. Reginald Daniel.…

  • Truthdig Radio with Marcia Dawkins

    Truthdig Radio with Marcia Dawkins Truthdig Radio KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles); 98.7 FM (Santa Barbara); 99.5 FM (China Lake); 93.7 North San Diego Wednesday, 2011-04-20, 21:00Z (14:00 PDT, 17:00 EDT) Kasia Anderson, Host and Associate Editor Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins discusses mixed race identities, press (including the 2011-04-18 CNN…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey] Contemporary Sociology Volume 36, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 535-536 DOI: 10.1177/009430610703600609 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?, by G. Reginald Daniel. University Park, PA: The…

  • More Minnesotans say they’re multiracial in 2010 Census

    More Minnesotans say they’re multiracial in 2010 Census TwinCities.com: Pioneer Press 2011-04-17 Richard Chin and MaryJo Webster Maybe it’s hip to be mixed. That could be one explanation for Minnesota’s 51 percent increase over the past decade in the number of people who say they are multiracial, substantially higher than the national increase. According to…

  • When Social Inequality Maps to Demographic Diversity, What Then for Liberal Democracies?

    When Social Inequality Maps to Demographic Diversity, What Then for Liberal Democracies? Social Research: An International Quarterly Volume 77, Number 1 (Spring 2010) pages 1-20 ISBN: 978-1-933481-20-3 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University in the City of New York If social inequality results from discriminatory behaviors or policies based on membership in a race…

  • Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama?

    Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama? Global Studies: A Member of the International Instutute University of Wisconsin, Madison Multiracial Tales and Multicultural Discourses 494 Van Hise Hall 2011-04-18, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington As “postrace” is the buzzword…