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  • Multiracial Identity Recognition – Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil

    Multiracial Identity Recognition – Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2015 143 pages Ana Carolina Miguel Gouveia Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a LLM Master degree in Law Graduate Studies in Law…

  • “I Don’t See Color” Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

    Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to…

  • Once sidelined, Taiwan’s mixed-race children find new embrace

    Once sidelined, Taiwan’s mixed-race children find new embrace Christian Science Monitor 2015-07-01 Ralph Jennings As more Taiwanese men marry Southeast Asian women, the island nation is beginning to think of itself as multi-ethnic, in a distinct departure from the mainland. The change is supported by younger generations. Taipei — Huang Hui-mei used to dread being…

  • Taken Identity

    Taken Identity The UC Santa Barbara Current Santa Barbara, California 2015-12-21 Jim Logan A new book by a UC Santa Barbara historian traces the bright and fuzzy lines of race in America The United States’ long record on race is, shall we say, checkered. Even in a time when an African-American sits in the White…

  • Black in a Foreign Land: In Defense of Dominican Identity

    Black in a Foreign Land: In Defense of Dominican Identity The Huffington Post 2015-12-17 César Vargas I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was two months shy of turning 13. The Dominican Republic has a peculiar color metric system–not necessarily on race. So it should go without saying that I wasn’t…

  • Making Blackness, Making Policy

    Making Blackness, Making Policy argues that blackness and black people are literally made rather than discovered. The social construction of blackness involves the naming of individuals as black, and the subsequent interaction between this naming and racial projects. The process of naming involves an intersubjective dialogue in which racial self-identification and ascription by others lead…

  • Race in Mind: Critical Essays

    “Race in Mind” presents fourteen critical essays on race and mixed race by one of America’s most prolific and influential ethnic studies scholars. Collected in one volume are all of Paul Spickard’s theoretical writings over the past two decades.

  • White Latino Racism on the Rise: It’s Time for a Serious Conversation on Euro-Diasporic Whiteness

    White Latino Racism on the Rise: It’s Time for a Serious Conversation on Euro-Diasporic Whiteness Latino Rebels 2015-12-21 Wiliam Garcia A common misconnection that exists today rests on the notion that there are no racial hierarchies in Latin American countries or within the Latino communities in the United States. In other words, Latino (or Hispanic)…

  • Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health

    Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Bethesda, Maryland 2015-05-08, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research will host the Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health, on May 8, 2015, at the NIH Campus, as part of the…

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America

    National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America Oxford University Press 2014-07-07 400 pages 22 b/w line illus., 4 b/w halftones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199337354 Paperback ISBN: 9780199337361 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley The first comprehensive history of census-taking and nation-making in nineteen Latin American…