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  • When Change Doesn’t Matter: Racial Identity (In)consistency and Adolescent Well-being

    When Change Doesn’t Matter: Racial Identity (In)consistency and Adolescent Well-being Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Volume 1, Number 2 (April 2015) pages 270-286 DOI: 10.1177/2332649214552730 Rory Kramer, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Ruth Burke Department of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Camille Z. Charles, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania…

  • Independent Lens | Little White Lie | I Identify: What Forces Determine Your Identity?

    Independent Lens | Little White Lie | I Identify: What Forces Determine Your Identity? Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service 2015-03-23 In conjunction with Lacey Schwartz’s “Little White Lie,” in which the filmmaker discovers an identity-altering family secret, Independent Lens presents “I Identify” — a digital short featuring nine San Francisco Bay Area residents exploring the…

  • As a Mixed-Race Woman, in the Game of Racial Top Trumps My Blackness Always Wins

    Shifting race: how language fails the ‘mixed-race’ experience

  • The Evolution of the Idea of Race: From Scientific Racism to Genomics

    The Evolution of the Idea of Race: From Scientific Racism to Genomics Oxford University Press Webinar Oxford University Press Friday, 2015-03-20, 18:00-19:00Z, 14:00-15:00 EDT Join Oxford University Press on Friday, March 20th for a Webinar featuring Tanya Golash-Boza. Tanya Golash-Boza is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at the…

  • Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think

    Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think Politico Magazine 2015-03-09 Sean McElwee Just Look at the Numbers News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and tensions between police and minority communities around the country are on the…

  • MIXED RACE 3.0

    MIXED RACE 3.0 Cultural Weekly 2015-02-28 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Ryder, Ulli K. and Marcia Alesan Dawkins (eds.), Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age (Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Press, 2015). We are scholars who have been thinking with a “mixed mind-set” for quite a while. We are…

  • Mixed Heritage Week 2015: AIDE Presents: “What Are You?” Exploring Biracial and Multiracial Identity (DICE)

    Mixed Heritage Week 2015: AIDE Presents: “What Are You?” Exploring Biracial and Multiracial Identity (DICE) The Ohio State University Student Life Multicultural Center, Alonso Family Room 3034 Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio Thursday, 2015-03-26, 20:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) This presentation will provide an overview of the changing racial demographics in the United…

  • Hate Takes the Bus

    Hate Takes the Bus The New York Times 2015-03-11 Charles M. Blow A University of Oklahoma Fraternity’s Chant and the Rigidity of Racism This week, when video was posted showing members of the University of Oklahoma’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon gleefully engaged in a racist chant on a bus, some people were shocked. Others,…

  • Diversity Week Keynote Speaker 2015: “One Drop of Love” perfomed by Fanshen DiGiovanni Cox

    Diversity Week Keynote Speaker 2015: “One Drop of Love” perfomed by Fanshen DiGiovanni Cox Miami University Oxford-Armstrong Student Center Harry T. Wilks Theater 550 E. Spring Street Oxford, Ohio Thursday, 2015-03-12, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) One Drop of Love produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, performed by Fanshen Cox Digiovanni is a multimedia solo show that…

  • IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters

    IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy University of Illinois, Chicago Student Center East 750 S. Halsted St, Room 302 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-12, 16:00 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology University of Pennsylvania Co-sponsors: Medical…