Mixed Race Studies

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  • Results of the 2016 Election

    Results of the 2016 Election American Sociological Association Washington, D.C. 2016-06-07 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, has been elected the 109th President of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota, has been elected Vice President. Bonilla-Silva and Uggen will assume their respective offices in August 2017, following a year of service as President-elect…

  • Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil

    Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil The Conversation 2016-05-26 Marshall Eakin, Professor of History Vanderbilt University Brazil is in the midst of its worst political crisis since the 1960s and possibly its most severe economic downturn in the last 100 years. The economy will not – and cannot – improve until…

  • Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity

    In “Negras in Brazil,” Kia Lilly Caldwell examines the life experiences of Afro-Brazilian women whose stories have until now been largely untold. This pathbreaking study analyzes the links between race and gender and broader processes of social, economic, and political exclusion.

  • Race Delusion: Lies That Divide Us

    Race Delusion: Lies That Divide Us The Huffington Post 2016-06-01 Robert J. Benz, Founder & Executive VP Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives David Livingstone Smith is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of London, Kings College, where he worked on Freud’s philosophy…

  • Dominican Anti-Blackness

    Dominican Anti-Blackness bluestockings magazine 2016-05-02 Perla Montas We were socialized from an early age to name blackness. To taunt it, to call it names. My friends and I compared skin colors as we played the “who’s blacker?” game. “You’re blacker than me, Perla!” “Haitiana, you lose!” My parents groomed an identity that privileged straight hair…

  • White Colorism

    White Colorism Social Currents Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2015) DOI: 10.1177/2329496514558628 pages 13-21 Lance Hannon, Professor Department of Sociology & Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Perhaps reflecting a desire to emphasize the enduring power of rigidly constructed racial categories, sociology has tended to downplay the importance of within-category variation in skin tone. Similarly, in…

  • Late Night Woman’s Hour (2016-05-27)

    Late Night Woman’s Hour (2016-05-27) Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 2016-05-27 Lauren Laverne, Presenter Lauren Laverne and guests discuss the origins and pitfalls of stereotypes of women. With Joanne Harris, best-selling author of Chocolat who has written about myth and fairy tales. Lisa Mckenzie, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, who has explored…

  • The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity

    A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege

  • How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics

    How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics The Washington Post 2016-05-13 Max Ehrenfreund American politics always has surprises, but things have been especially unpredictable since President Obama took office. First, few observers were prepared for the tea party movement, which ousted several veteran GOP lawmakers, replaced them…