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  • Maybe you don’t say you’re black if you’re biracial. But it’s how you’re seen

    Maybe you don’t say you’re black if you’re biracial. But it’s how you’re seen The Guardian 2015-11-22 Zach Stafford, Contributing Writer Chicago, Illinois No matter how I identify or how I feel, it’s my skin color that determines how I’ll be treated Like every young black man I know, I remember the moment when my…

  • Q&A with Miriam Jiménez Román

    In February, Latina magazine listed “6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World.” Naturally, Miriam Jiménez Román was second on the list.

  • Medicalizing Racism

    Medicalizing Racism Contexts Fall 2014, Volume 13, Number 4 pages 24-29 DOI: 10.1177/1536504214558213 James M. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Mississippi Cassandra Conlin Sociologist James M. Thomas (JT) examines how public and scientific accounts of racism draw upon medical and psychological models, and how this contributes to our…

  • Taye Diggs’ ‘mixed’ comments spurs conversation about raising biracial kids

    Taye Diggs’ ‘mixed’ comments spurs conversation about raising biracial kids PIX 11 (WPIX) New York, New York 2015-11-20 Senior editor of Ebony magazine Jamilah Lemieux, biracial blogger Lisa Rosenberg and biracial filmmaker Lacey Schwartz talk about actor Taye Diggs’ comments about wanting his son to embrace being “mixed.” Watch the video here.

  • Correcting the conversation about race

    Correcting the conversation about race OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2015-11-20 Carlos Hoyt On 6 November 2015, the New York Times featured a poignant five-minute documentary called “A Conversation About Growing Up Black,” produced by Joe Brewster and Perri Peltz. Brewster and Peltz present Rakesh, Miles, Malek, Marvin, Shaquille, Bisa,…

  • “Generation Mix:” Is All This Talk of “Multiracialism” An Advance?

    “Generation Mix:” Is All This Talk of “Multiracialism” An Advance? i MiX WHAT i LiKE The Real News 2015-11-12 Jared A. Ball, Host/Producer and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Artist, activist and creator of the multimedia comic book (H)afrocentric Juliana “Jules” Smith and Dr. Rainier Spencer, author of Reproducing Race: The…

  • White supremacy remains intact despite the increase in interracial relationships

    It’s been a strange tale of race relations of late. On the one hand, research indicates that one in ten relationships are between people from different ethnic backgrounds. Yet on the other hand, the effects of institutional racism are as potent ever.

  • The Myth of the White Minority

    The Myth of the White Minority Critical Philosophy of Race Volume 3, Issue 2, 2015 pages 305-323 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I…

  • Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black

    Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black El País Madrid, Spain 2015-11-17 Marina Rossi São Paulo, Brazil English version by Martin Delfín. Participants in the “Curly Hair Pride March,” which was held in July in São Paulo. / CORDON PRESS Sociologists say changes in attitudes have made people more open…

  • Who Cares for Health Care?

    Who Cares for Health Care? Breaking Through: TEDMED 2015 Palm Springs, California 2015-11-18 through 2015-11-20 Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Physician, heal thyself … and while you’re at it, how about healing…