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  • Obama and Race in America

    Obama and Race in America The Huffington Post 2010-08-06 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In his first major comment on race and race relations in our nation since his “A More Perfect Union Speech” on March 18, 2008, President Barack Obama called for frank discussion about race last week. In both a speech…

  • The Social Position of White and “Half-Caste” Women in Colored Groupings in Britain

    The Social Position of White and “Half-Caste” Women in Colored Groupings in Britain American Sociological Review Volume 16, Number 6 (December 1951) pages 796-802 Sydney F. Collins University of Edinburgh Sociological studies of colored minority groups in Britain have so far been undertaken only on a limited scale. But the ever-widening interest being shown in…

  • Biological and Social Consequences of Race-Crossing

    Biological and Social Consequences of Race-Crossing American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (April/June 1926) pages 145–156 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330090212 W. E. Castle (1867-1962) Bussey Institution, Harvard University What constitute the essential differences between human races seems to be a question difficult for anthropologists to agree upon but from a biologist’s point of view…

  • honhyeol…

    …The Korean word for a bi or multiracial person, despite the composition of their mixture, is honhyeol (in), which literally translates into impure blood. There has been a “pride” instilled in Koreans for their “ethnic homogeneity” which has resulted in “fear and distrust of outsiders” (The Economist, 2006). The connotation for Korea, which bases its…

  • Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent

    Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent Social Identities Volume 14, Issue 5 (September 2008) pages 567-585 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802343390 Richard T. Middleton IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study…

  • Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico

    Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico University of Oklahoma Press December 2010 400 pages 30 B&W Illus., 2 Maps 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140537 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168920 Shirley Boteler Mock, Research Fellow Mesoamerican Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin Explores a unique and eclectic culture rooted in African…

  • The Risks of Multiracial Identification

    The Risks of Multiracial Identification The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-11-10 Naomi Schaefer Riley The comment period has closed on proposed new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education on how colleges should ask students about race. No longer, the guidelines say, should applicants simply be given the choice of black, white, Asian, American Indian…

  • Familial Ethnic Socialization Among Adolescents of Latino and European Descent: Do Latina Mothers Exert the Most Influence?

    Familial Ethnic Socialization Among Adolescents of Latino and European Descent: Do Latina Mothers Exert the Most Influence? Journal of Family Issues Volume 27, Number 2 (February 2006) Pages 184-207 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X05279987 Andrea G. González University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Associate Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences…

  • A Visual and Sociological Study of the Hafus

    A Visual and Sociological Study of the Hafus 2010-08-07 Through 2010-08-29 Tue-Thu & Sun 12:00-19:00 Fri&Sat 12:00-20:00 (Closed on Mondays and 14, 15, and 16 August ) 3331 Arts Chiyoda 6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-Ku,Tokyo, 101-0021 Natalie Maya Willer, Photographer Marcia Yumie Lise, Researcher The Hafu Project is a visual and sociological study & representation of the…

  • Racial Quotas and the Culture War in Brazilian Academia

    Racial Quotas and the Culture War in Brazilian Academia Sociology Compass Volume 4 Issue 8 (August 2010) Pages 592 – 604 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00295.x Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Michelle Peria University of California, Irvine Dozens of Brazilian universities recently adopted racial quotas for negros, read Afro-Brazilians, in higher education. Anyone…