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  • “Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race

    “Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 343-358 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that “race is a social construction, not a…

  • Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a “Postracial America”

    Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a “Postracial America” Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 327-342 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Linda Trinh Võ, Associate Professor Department of Asian American Studies School of Humanities University of California, Irvine Beyond the symbolism of President Barack Hussein Obama’s election is the unseen…

  • Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden

    Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden Notes & Records of the Royal Society Volume 64, Number 4 pages 379-400 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2010.0009 Maria Björkman Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University Sven Widmalm Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University This paper traces the early (1910s to 1920s) development of…

  • African Ancestry of the White American Population

    African Ancestry of the White American Population The Ohio Journal of Science Volume 58, Number 3 (May 1958) pages 155-160 Robert P. Stuckert Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Ohio State University, Columbus Defining a racial group generally poses a problem to social scientists. A definition of a race has yet to be proposed that is…

  • Trends in Mate Selection in a Tri-Racial Isolate

    Trends in Mate Selection in a Tri-Racial Isolate Social Forces Volume 37, Number 3 (March 1959) pages 215-221 Thomas J. Harte Catholic University of America Read before the twenty-first annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in Asheville, North Carolina, April 11, 1958. The “Brandywine” population of Southern Maryland is a tri-racial hybrid group which…

  • Interview: Whiteness Redux

    Interview: Whiteness Redux borderlands: e-journal Volume 3, Number 2 (2004) Mike Hill, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies State University of New York, Albany Damien W. Riggs University of Adelaide, South Australia 1. Damien: As a research area that is rapidly growing within ‘Western nations’, how would you understand whiteness studies as both creating…

  • The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time

    The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time Social Science Research Volume 36, Issue 1 (March 2007) pages 159-174 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.11.002 J. Scott Brown, Associate Professor of Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Steven Hitlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Glen H. Elder, Jr., Research Professor…

  • Our Changing Identities

    Our Changing Identities The New Black Magazine 2010-10-18 Adam K. Raymond On forms asking their racial or ethnic backgrounds, young people of multi-racial origin give different answers at different times. As a teenager, Cameron Clark, whose mother is white and father is black, always checked “African-American” on forms that asked about his race. “I needed…

  • Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience

    Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience Xlibris 2010 384 pages ISBN 13 Softcover: 978-1-4500-1231-7 ISBN 13 Hardcover: 978-1-4500-1232-4 ISBN 13 Ebook: 978-1-4500-0340-7 Edited By: Hamilton McCubbin, Krystal Ontai, Lisa Kehl, Laurie McCubbin, Ida Strom, Heidi Hart, Barbara DeBaryshe, Marika Ripke and Jon Matsuoka Guided by the increasing number of interracial marriages, cross-cultural adoptions…

  • Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans

    Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies Washington State University Press 1988 Chapter 15, pages 111-116 Edited by: G. Y. Okihiro, S. Hune, A. A. Hansen, and J. M. Liu Stephen L. Murphy-Shigematsu Revising the Asian American Studies curriculum One of the more dramatic changes…