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  • Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism

    Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism Stanford University Press 2016-11-30 248 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804799560 Paper ISBN: 9781503600546 Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics James Madison College, Michigan State University Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved,…

  • Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Dolezal and instability in gender and race

    Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Dolezal and instability in gender and race Maclean’s 2016-12-04 Sujaya Dhanvantari Sociologist Rogers Brubaker examines transgender and transracial differences TRANS By Rogers Brubaker In Western culture, gender and race were traditionally thought to be unchangeable and fixed for life. Black or white, male or female: These were forever separated by the binary…

  • Shanya Hayes | In Her Own Voice

    Shanya Hayes | In Her Own Voice The Insight Center for Community Economic Development Oakland, California 2016-11-03 Shanya Hayes is going places. While many students her age spend their summer vacations doing anything but school work, this bright young scholar has been staking out her future. And as her ambition leads her toward new understandings,…

  • The Identity Politics of Whiteness

    The Identity Politics of Whiteness The New York Times Magazine 2016-11-27 Laila Lalami Three years ago, I read “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” to my daughter. She smiled as she heard about Huck’s mischief, his jokes, his dress-up games, but it was his relationship with the runaway slave Jim that intrigued her most. Huck and Jim…

  • What Is the Color of Beauty?

    A multibillion-dollar industry of skin-whitening products dominates the West African beauty market, creating a world of mixed messages for the women who live there.

  • Mixing kids in school leads to more mixed-race adult relationships

    Mixing kids in school leads to more mixed-race adult relationships IZA Newsroom Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Institute for the Study of Labor) Bonn, Germany 2016-11-24 Does the racial mix of students’ classmates affect their behavior later on in life? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Luca Paolo Merlino, Max Friedrich Steinhardt and Liam Wren-Lewis compares…

  • More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships

    This paper investigates the impact of individuals’ school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual’s cohort on the percentage of adults’ cohabiting partners that are black. We find that more black peers leads to more relationships with blacks…

  • Gendered (Mixed) Race

    Gendered (Mixed) Race FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2016-05-26 Laura Jue “You’re so exotic.” That’s a phrase that many mixed race people like me have heard at least a few times in their lives. That sentiment is usually accompanied by other similarly dehumanizing compliments such as “mixed people are so beautiful,” “mixed babies are…

  • Attitudes toward interracial marriages and the role of interracial contacts in Sweden

    Attitudes toward interracial marriages and the role of interracial contacts in Sweden Ethnicities Volume 16, Number 4, August 2016 pages 568-588 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638400 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmo University, Sweden; Sophia University, Japan This paper examines attitudes toward interracial marriages and the relationship between the amount of prior interracial contact and attitudes in Sweden. The analysis…

  • The Latinos Of Asia

    The Latinos Of Asia Think KERA Dallas, Texas 2016-11-14 Krys Boyd, Host and Managing Editor Filipino Americans are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian. But because of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, many Filipinos also feel part Latino. This hour, we’ll talk about how skin color, history and other factors contribute to cultural identity…