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  • The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census

    The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census Social Science History Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 485-519 Rebecca Jean Emigh, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Dylan Riley, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Patricia Ahmed South Dakota State University This paper examines the demographic categories in…

  • Free at Last?

    Free at Last? Commentary 1992-10-01 Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences; Professor of Economics Brown University A formative experience of my growing-up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960’s occurred during one of those heated, earnest political rallies so typical of the period. I was about eighteen at…

  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “Why Can’t We Just Get Along?: Race Matters in the Colorblind Racial Movement”

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “Why Can’t We Just Get Along?: Race Matters in the Colorblind Racial Movement” Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University 2015-02-27 (Published on 2015-07-02) Presents… Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University “Race Today: A Symposium on Race in…

  • Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice

    Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice Routledge 2013-05-13 24 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81970-1 Edited by: Ximena Zuniga, Associate Professor in Social Justice Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Gretchen Lopez, Director of the Intergroup Dialogue Program and Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Kristie Ford, Director of…

  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

    Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Cambridge University Press January 2015 Paperback ISBN: 9780521154260 Edited by: Karim Murji, Senior Lecturer in Sociology The Open University, United Kingdom John Solomos, Professor of Sociology University of Warwick, United Kingdom How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades…

  • J.R. Reynolds: Say it loud: He’s black and I’m proud

    J.R. Reynolds: Say it loud: He’s black and I’m proud Battle Creek Enquirer Battle Creek, Michigan 2015-12-07 J.R. Reynolds, Community Columnist J.R. Reynolds Until my 2-year-old son is old enough to self-identify racially, I’ve declared him black. I’m raising him African American. Socially and legally. This, despite him being half white. Why? It’s in his…

  • Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness

    Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness Northwestern University Press May 2006 488 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN: ISBN 978-0-8101-1971-0 Edited by: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Culture Barnard College Columbia University, New York, New York Nicole Svobodny, Assistant Dean, College of…

  • Rethinking Multiracial Formation in the United States: Toward an Intersectional Approach

    Rethinking Multiracial Formation in the United States: Toward an Intersectional Approach Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2016) pages 27-41 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215591864 Celeste Vaughan Curington Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst This article forwards an integrative multiracial formation perspective that analyzes race, class, and gender as complex social systems, predicated…

  • Choose Your Own Identity

    Choose Your Own Identity The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-14 Bonnie Tsui A series of portraits from “The Hapa Project” by the artist Kip Fulbeck. Kip Fulbeck/The Hapa Project I never realized how little I understood race until I tried to explain it to my 5-year-old son. Our family story doesn’t seem too complicated: I’m…

  • Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World

    Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and multiracial are the fastest…