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  • The Brazilian carnival queen deemed ‘too black’ – video

    The Brazilian carnival queen deemed ‘too black’ – video The Guardian 2016-02-09 Barney Lankester-Owen, Bruce Douglas, Charlie Phillips and Juliet Riddell Nayara Justino thought her dreams had come true when she was selected as the Globeleza carnival queen in 2013 after a public vote on one of Brazil’s biggest TV shows. But some regarded her…

  • The Latino Flight to Whiteness

    Based upon trends in racial self-classification, one has to be skeptical about the emergence of “majority-minority” America.

  • How “Mestizaje” in Puerto Rico Makes Room for Racism to Flourish

    “Somos de tres razas! La blanca, la india, y la negra!” is a cliched response you can almost always count on hearing anytime you bring up race or racism in Puerto Rico or Puerto Rican Diaspora communities. It’s cute, easy to remember, and also a lie.

  • Is It Time To Stop Using Race In Medical Research?

    Is It Time To Stop Using Race In Medical Research? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-02-05 Angus Chen Genetics researchers often discover certain snips and pieces of the human genome that are important for health and development, such as the genetic mutations that cause cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia. And scientists…

  • Taking race out of human genetics

    Taking race out of human genetics Science Volume 351, Issue 6273 (2016-02-05) pages 564-565 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4951 Michael Yudell, Associate Professor Dornsife School of Public Health Department of Community Health and Prevention Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander…

  • Biracial Sons More Likely Than Daughters To Identify As Black

    Biracial Sons More Likely Than Daughters To Identify As Black NBC News 2016-02-01 Aris Folley Black-white biracial sons of interracial parents, in which one parent is black and the other is white, are more likely than their female counterparts to identify as black, according to a study found in the February issue of the American…

  • Racialization and its paradigms: From Ireland to North America

    Racialization and its paradigms: From Ireland to North America Current Sociology Volume 64, Number 2 (March 2016) pages 213-227 DOI: 10.1177/0011392115614782 Vilna Bashi Treitler, Professor of Black and Latino Studies; Professor of Sociology City University of New York This article offers a template for understanding and analyzing racialization as a paradigm. Further, this template is…

  • Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity

    Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity Baylor University Press February 2016 190 pages 9in x 6in Hardback ISBN: 9781602587342 Sheldon George, Professor of English Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts African American identity is racialized. And this racialized identity has animated and shaped political resistance to racism. Hidden, though, are the psychological…

  • How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts

    How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts University of California Press January 2014 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520280076 Paperback ISBN: 9780520280083 Adbobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520957190 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520957190 Natalia Molina, Associate Dean for Faculty Equity, Division of Arts; Humanities and Associate Professor of History and…

  • Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series)

    Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2016-02-01, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Jonathan Xavier Inda, Chair and Professor of Latino/a…