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  • Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934

    Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 University of Minnesota Press September 2015 368 pages 32 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7303-2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7302-5 Melissa N. Stein, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Kentucky From the “gay gene” to the “female brain” and African American…

  • I’m white in Barcelona but in Los Angeles I’m Hispanic?

    I’m white in Barcelona but in Los Angeles I’m Hispanic? Public Radio International 2015-10-27 Jaime Gonzalez, BBC World Service Journalist Los Angeles, California “You’re not white, where are you from?” This is how I was greeted a few months ago by a young Black man I interviewed in Los Angeles for a story I was…

  • A course originally called ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ returns to Arizona State

    A course originally called ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ returns to Arizona State The Washington Post 2015-11-12 Yanan Wang Freedom of speech. Racial inequality. Student activism. Safe spaces. These are the phrases that have been lobbied about over the past week, in tones both fervent and contemptuous, as University of Missouri students successfully campaigned for the…

  • Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches

    Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, November 2015 Guest Edited by: Dan Rodríguez-García, Associate Professor Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Intermarriage has been a subject of study in the social sciences for…

  • The Sweet (and Sour) Enchantment of Racism in Post-Racial America

    The Sweet (and Sour) Enchantment of Racism in Post-Racial America University of South Florida Patel Center for Global Solutions Auditorium 4202 E Fowler Ave, CGS101 Tampa, Florida 33620 Friday, 2015-11-13, 12:30-13:30 EST (Local Time) Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will be on campus on November 13, 2015, for the purpose of discussing his recent works relating to…

  • The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families

    Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and observations within ten core families, this study of intimate relationships as sites of racial socialization reveals a new facet of race-based differential treatment and its origins—and the mechanisms that perpetuate these strata across generations.

  • Why I teach about Whiteness.

    Why I teach about Whiteness. Race and Reflection 2015-11-08 Lee Bebout, Associate Professor of English Arizona State University I will be teaching “the whiteness class” in a few weeks, and it seems like a good time to reflect on where I’ve been and where we’re going. Last spring was simultaneously a headache and a joy.…

  • W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

    W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk University of North Carolina Press August 2015 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2643-7 Stephanie J. Shaw, Professor of History Ohio State University In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American…

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    The Souls of Black Folk Yale University Press 2015-06-30 (Originally published in 1903) 240 pages 18 b/w illus. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paper ISBN: 9780300195828 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) Introduction and Chronology by: Jonathan Scott Holloway, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies; Dean of Yale College…

  • Probing Change in Racial Self-identification: A Focus on Children of Immigrants

    Probing Change in Racial Self-identification: A Focus on Children of Immigrants Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2015-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215611685 Thomas J. Mowen, Assistant Professor Department of Criminal Justice University of Wyoming Richard Stansfield, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Camden Recent…