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  • The Human Face of Globalization: From Multicultural to Mestizaje

    Anthropologist and sociologist Jacques Audinet proposes an alternative to culture wars and simple multiculturalism as he explores the history and evolution of mestizaje, the mixing of races and cultures resulting in a third and new force able to ease the tensions between the original two.

  • Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

    Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Routledge 2016-12-20 246 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781138677708 Edited by: Farida Fozdar, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology University of Western Australia Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthropology) School of Social Science University of Queensland This volume offers a “southern,” Pacific Ocean perspective on the…

  • Are Brazilians Latinos? What their identity struggle tells us about race in America

    In the United States, all three are closely associated with the word “Brazilian.” Yet, although none of these things are linked to Latino identity, one of the questions that journalists frequently ask me is, “Are Brazilians Latinos?”

  • The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America

    The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America The Atlantic 2016-12-13 Tressie McMillan Cottom, Assistant Professor of Sociology Virginia Commonwealth University The president’s optimism about race blinded him to the pervasiveness and stubborn persistence of racism. I screamed a lot while reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s My President Was Black. When I was done reading and screaming,…

  • The Physics of Melanin: Science and the Chaotic Social Construct of Race

    The Physics of Melanin: Science and the Chaotic Social Construct of Race Bitch Media 2016-12-19 Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Research Associate Department of Physics University of Washington, Seattle It could have been earwax. It turns out that the texture of a person’s earwax is not determined by environment but rather is written into a person’s genetic…

  • Dating in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter

    Dating in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter Racism Review: shcolarship and activism toward racial justice 2016-02-24 Shantel Buggs, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology The University of Texas, Austin When I started my dissertation research a year ago, I had not considered what impact the widespread media coverage of #BlackLivesMatter as a movement and rallying cry might have…

  • The Mythic Root of Racism

    The Mythic Root of Racism Sociological Inquiry Volume 63, Issue 3, July 1993 pages 339–350 DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1993.tb00314.x Donal E. Muir, Professor of Sociology University of Alabama The term “race” was introduced into science two and a half centuries ago as an arbitrary convenience to describe geographic groupings of humans. These ad hoc racial taxonomies were…

  • Mean, Kind Or Non: Which Type Of Racist Are You?

    Do you take issue with the following declaration? “Race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity.”

  • Black or white?

    It was a policy was born of good intentions but has stirred up perplexing, often painful, questions: What makes a person black, or white? Is it facial features? Hair? Family? Or an experience of racism? And who gets to decide?

  • What Being of Mixed Heritage Has Taught Me About Identity

    What Being of Mixed Heritage Has Taught Me About Identity VICE 2016-12-10 Salma Haidrani This article originally appeared on VICE UK “What are you?” When you think about it, it’s a pretty stupid question to ask another person, especially when you already know the answer: a human, just like you mate. But that doesn’t stop…