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  • Exploring Racial Bias Among Biracial and Single-Race Adults: The IAT

    Exploring Racial Bias Among Biracial and Single-Race Adults: The IAT Pew Research Center 2015-08-19 Rich Morin, Senior Editor This report summarizes the results of an online experiment that utilized an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure racial bias in single-race whites, blacks, Asians and biracial adults with a white and black or a white and…

  • Amid sweeping changes in US relations, Cuba’s race problem persists

    Amid sweeping changes in US relations, Cuba’s race problem persists Al Jazeera America 2015-08-13 Julia Cooke In 1959, Fidel Castro said he would work to erase racial discrimination, but inequality is still widespread Official Cuban census figures say black and mixed-heritage people are about 35 percent of the island’s population, but a quick stroll around…

  • Dark-Skinned Or Black? How Afro-Brazilians Are Forging A Collective Identity

    Dark-Skinned Or Black? How Afro-Brazilians Are Forging A Collective Identity Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-12 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent Sisters Francine and Fernanda Gravina have German, Italian, African and indigenous ancestry. (Lourdes Garcia-Navarro/NPR) If you want to get a sense of how complex racial identity is in…

  • How Canadians celebrate their identity — it’s all in the hyphen

    How Canadians celebrate their identity — it’s all in the hyphen The Toronto Star 2015-05-02 Eric Andrew-Gee, Staff Reporter Hyphenated identities — Ukrainian-Canadian, Somali-Canadian and the like — have played an outsized if ambiguous role in Canada. The Canadian poet Fred Wah is a bard of hyphens. He has described them, variously, as “a boundary…

  • Book Review: Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

    Book Review: Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. Jennifer L. Ruef Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Urban Education Volume 50, Number 6 (September 2015) pages 776-783 DOI: 10.1177/0042085913519339 H. S. Alim, G. Smitherman (2012). Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. New York, NY: Oxford University…

  • Greason: Quiet reflections on the impact of race perception

    Greason: Quiet reflections on the impact of race perception The Times-Herald Norristown, Pennsylvania 2015-08-05 Walter Greason, Executive Director International Center for Metropolitan Growth Imagine looking white, but not being white. It is an experience that exposes the limitations of racial perception, while reinforcing its power. As a child, the experience unfolds through the whispers of…

  • Three personal stories that show Brazil is not completely beyond racism

    Three personal stories that show Brazil is not completely beyond racism The Globe and Mail Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2015-07-31 Stephanie Nolen, Latin America Correspondent Brazil’s national mythology is built on the idea of a democracia racial – a country whose population is uniquely mixed and has moved beyond racism. The lived experience of its citizens,…

  • Brazil’s colour bind

    Brazil is combating many kinds of inequality. But one of the world’s most diverse nations is still just beginning to talk about race

  • The colour black, Mixed-race people

    The colour black, Mixed-race people Thinking Allowed BBC Radio 4 2015-07-22 Laurie Taylor, Host Black: the cultural and historical meaning of the darkest colour. From the ‘little black dress’ which epitomises chic, to its links to death, depression and evil, ‘black’ embodies many contrasting values. White Europeans exploited the negative associations of ‘black’ in enslaving…

  • “The Illogic of American Racial Categories”

    “The Illogic of American Racial Categories” Jefferson’s Blood: Thomas Jefferson, his slave & mistress Sally Hemings, their descendants, and the mysterious power of race. Frontline Public Broadcasting Service 2000 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Excerpted from the chapter “The Illogic of American Racial Categories” in Racially Mixed People in…