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  • The Danger of a Dominant Identity

    The Danger of a Dominant Identity The New York Times 2016-11-18 David Brooks Over the past few days we’ve seen what happens when you assign someone a single identity. Pollsters assumed that most Latinos would vote only as Latinos, and therefore against Donald Trump. But a surprising percentage voted for him. Pollsters assumed women would…

  • Study provides insight into children’s race and gender identities

    Study provides insight into children’s race and gender identities UW Today University of Washington 2016-11-15 Deborah Bach Children’s knowledge and use of race and gender labels have been well-explored by researchers, but how kids think about their own identities in those contexts, especially before adolescence, is less clear. A new study from the University of…

  • Is Gender More Important and Meaningful Than Race? An Analysis of Racial and Gender Identity Among Black, White, and Mixed-Race Children

    Is Gender More Important and Meaningful Than Race? An Analysis of Racial and Gender Identity Among Black, White, and Mixed-Race Children Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Published online 2016-10-13 DOI: 10.1037/cdp0000125 Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Research Assistant Professor College of Education, Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development University of Washington Andrew N. Meltzoff, Professor…

  • MacKay Lecture Series: “Living Race in the Post-Racial Era? Mixed Race Amnesia in Canada”

    MacKay Lecture Series: “Living Race in the Post-Racial Era? Mixed Race Amnesia in Canada” Dalhousie University Room 127 Goldberg Computer Science Building Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2 Thursday, 2016-11-17, 19:00 AST (Local Time) Dr. Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor of Human Geography and Program in Journalism University of Toronto, Scarborough Minelle Mahtani is the author…

  • How To Fix Our Sub-Conscious Racism: A Mixed-Race Perspective | Elizabeth Dobson | TEDxLehighRiver

    How To Fix Our Sub-Conscious Racism: A Mixed-Race Perspective | Elizabeth Dobson | TEDxLehighRiver TEDx Talks 2016-11-15 Elizabeth Dobson Liz’s TEDxLehighRiver Talk is based on one of the unique perspectives of many multiethnic people, and how that perspective is critical to help all of us learn how to engage and connect with each other across…

  • Locating black mixed-raced males in the black supplementary school movement

    Locating black mixed-raced males in the black supplementary school movement Race Ethnicity and Education Published online 2016-11-08 pages 1-14 DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1248838 Remi Joseph-Salisbury School of Ethnicity and Racism Studies, School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor of Sociology Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom This article…

  • The reality of being black in today’s Britain

    The reality of being black in today’s Britain The Guardian 2016-10-29 David Olusoga David Olusoga at El Mina, a Portuguese-built fort in Ghana. ‘Many black British people, and their white and mixed-race family members, slipped into a siege mentality.’ Photograph: BBC David Olusoga grew up amid racism in Britain in the 70s and 80s. Now,…

  • Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception

    Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception Sociology of Race and Ethnicity October 2016, Volume 2, Number 4 pages 569-583 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216634740 Jennifer Patrice Sims, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, River Falls Developed from Cooley’s looking-glass self, the theory of…

  • Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America

    Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America Praeger October 2016 645 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-4992-3 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-4993-0 Edited by: Patricia Reid-Merritt, Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Africana Studies Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey Is race simply an antiquated, pseudo-scientific abstraction developed to justify the dehumanization…

  • White Nonsense

    White Nonsense Vice News 2016-10-09 Elspeth Reeve Alt-right trolls are arguing over genetic tests they think “prove” their whiteness Andrew remembers feeling a “tinge of apprehension” when he logged on to 23andMe. Several weeks earlier, he’d spit into a tube and mailed it to the genetic testing company, which analyzes customers’ DNA to estimate where…