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  • Brazilian soap operas slowly cast black middle class

    Brazilian soap operas slowly cast black middle class Al Jazeera America 2015-04-11 Matt Sandy Morgann Jezequel Actor Sílvio Guindane poses on the set of the telenovela Vitória at Record studios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October, 2014. Rafael Fabres / Getty Images Assignment for Al Jazeera America Black actors move beyond roles as maids, thieves and…

  • Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241)

    Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241) University of Exeter Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom 2015-02-08 Taking as its point of departure the landmark special issue of Survey Graphic that announced the arrival on the artistic scene of the “New Negro” (1925), this module provides a historical survey of African American writing, 1925 to present.…

  • “Hafu” Filmmaker Spotlights Bicultural Japan

    “Hafu” Filmmaker Spotlights Bicultural Japan Nippon.com: Your Doorway to Japan 2013-12-27 Nishikura Megumi The recent film Hafu documents the lives of five bicultural Japanese. Nippon.com spoke to one of the film’s two directors, Nishikura Megumi, to learn more about the film and the motivation behind it. The number of Japanese citizens marrying foreign nationals has…

  • Does the “White Privilege” Umbrella cover Black and Biracial Children? (Survey included)

    Does the “White Privilege” Umbrella cover Black and Biracial Children? (Survey included) Lisa W. Rosenberg: Writings on Body Image and Identity 2015-04-03 Lisa W. Rosenberg This is the first post I have written soliciting responses to a survey—so I’m stating it up front: At the end of this post is an actual, honest-to-goodness survey for…

  • Exposure to Racial Ambiguity Influences Lay Theories of Race

    Exposure to Racial Ambiguity Influences Lay Theories of Race Social Psychological and Personality Science Volume 6, Number 4 (May 2015) pages 382-390 DOI: 10.1177/1948550614562844 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Danielle M. Young Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Kristin Pauker, Assistant Professor of Psychology University…

  • Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power

    Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 10 photos, 3 illlustrations, 5 tables 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3090-8 Stefanie Wickstrom, Senior Lecturer of Political Science Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington Philip D. Young (1936-2013), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of Oregon The Spanish word mestizaje does…

  • Dismantling the Racial Paradise

    Dismantling the Racial Paradise Stanford University Press Blog March 2015 Tiffany Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York How migration to and from the U.S. is transforming notions of race in Brazil. I still remember my first trip to Brazil—I was amazed…

  • Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race

    Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race Stanford University Press February 2015 240 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804792202 Paper ISBN: 9780804794350 Digital ISBN: 9780804794398 Tiffany D. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York Race on the Move takes…

  • Black On Black Crime And The Peculiar Responsibility Of Biracial Positionality

    Black On Black Crime And The Peculiar Responsibility Of Biracial Positionality The Magic Mulatto 2015-03-28 Brett Russell Coleman, Doctoral Student of Community & Prevention Research University of Illinois, Chicago In this piece I am 1) making the argument that anti-blackness is pervasive, and 2) concluding that biracial (black/white) people have a peculiar responsibility to confront…

  • Amherst Together asking for poems about identity, presenting 1-woman performance on notion of race

    Amherst Together asking for poems about identity, presenting 1-woman performance on notion of race MassLive 2015-03-24 Diane Lederman, Reporter The Springfield Republican Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is bringing her one-woman show “One Drop of Love” to Amherst Middle School April 15 as part of the Amherst Together initiative. (Submitted) AMHERST, [Massachusetts] – Since July, Carol Ross has…