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  • The PBS NewsHour Launches Year Long Conversation on Race, Diversity and Intolerance

    The PBS NewsHour Launches Year Long Conversation on Race, Diversity and Intolerance PBS NewsHour 2015-08-31 Media Relations Contacts: Nick Massella, Director of Audience Engagement and Communications James Blue, Senior Content and Special Projects Producer WASHINGTON, DC (August 31, 2015) – Michael Brown. Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. These are just three names that have dominated news…

  • Toward building a conceptual framework on intermarriage

    Toward building a conceptual framework on intermarriage Ethnicities Volume 16, Number 4, August 2016 pages 497-520 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638402 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmö University, Sweden; Sophia University, Japan Nahikari Irastorza, Marie Curie Research Fellow Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity, and Welfare Malmö University, Sweden Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent,…

  • The Arc of a Bad Idea: Understanding and Transcending Race

    For the vast majority of human existence we did without the idea of race. Since its inception a mere few hundred years ago, and despite the voluminous documentation of the problems associated with living within the racial worldview, we have come to act as if race is something we cannot live without. “The Arc of…

  • Revealing the Race-Based Realities of Workforce Exclusion

    Revealing the Race-Based Realities of Workforce Exclusion NACLA Report on the Americas Volume 47, Number 4 (Winter 2014) pages 26-29 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Advocates in the fight against poverty in Latin America often center class above race as the factor that most determines Afro-descendants’ life-chances. But a growing movement is…

  • The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perception

    The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perception Social Problems Volume 57, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 92-113 DOI: 10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.92 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine In the United States, racial disparities in incarceration and their consequences are widely…

  • Can Incarceration Really Strip People of Racial Privilege?

    Can Incarceration Really Strip People of Racial Privilege? Sociological Science 2016-03-18 Lance Hannon, Professor of Sociology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Robert DeFina, Professor of Sociology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania We replicate and reexamine Saperstein and Penner’s prominent 2010 study which asks whether incarceration changes the probability that an individual will be seen as black or…

  • The multiple dimensions of race

    The multiple dimensions of race Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online 2016-03-21 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1140793 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Vancouver Increasing numbers of people in the United States and beyond experience ‘race’ not as a single, consistent identity but as a number of conflicting dimensions. This article distinguishes the…

  • Among A Race Of Others: An Overview Of Western Racial Classification And Colourism

    Among A Race Of Others: An Overview Of Western Racial Classification And Colourism Media Diversified 2016-04-01 Anthony Anaxagorou Recently, a friend asked what makes someone a ‘person of colour’. For many White people and for many people of colour too, the term can seem strangely ambiguous. The ongoing refugee crisis has seen thousands of displaced…

  • Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against

    Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against The Daily Targum: Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. 2016-03-31 Samantha Karas The fastest growing racial group in the United States is mixed-race individuals, but they are also the ones experiencing increasing amounts of prejudice from white people, according to a…

  • Where We Live Affects Our Bias Against Mixed-Race Individuals, Psychology Study Finds

    Whites living in areas where they are less exposed to those of other races have a harder time categorizing mixed-race individuals than do Whites with greater interracial exposure, a condition that is associated with greater prejudice against mixed-race individuals, a new experimental study shows.