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  • 394. Paper Session: New Issues in Race and Identity

    394. Paper Session: New Issues in Race and Identity Crossing Borders: 2015 Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, New York 2015-02-26 through 2015-03-01 Sunday, 2015-03-01, 10:15-11:45 EST (Local Time) Presider: Vilna Bashi Treitler, Baruch College, City University of New York Blacks, Latinos, Jews and Foreigners are Taking Over: How Innumeracy About…

  • Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries

    Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Available online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2015.02.002 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores University of Washington Fernando Urrea Giraldo, Professor of Sociology Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia Highlights We use two measures of race…

  • 235. Paper Session: Racial Dynamics of Dating & Marriage

    235. Paper Session: Racial Dynamics of Dating & Marriage Crossing Borders: 2015 Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, New York 2015-02-26 through 2015-03-01 Saturday, 2015-02-28, 08:30-10:30 EST (Local Time) Presider: Erica Chito-Childs, City University of New York – Hunter College The Role of Race in Dating Among Americans: How “Whiteness” Influences…

  • 279. Invited Thematic Session: Crossing Interracial Borders

    279. Invited Thematic Session: Crossing Interracial Borders Crossing Borders: 2015 Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, New York 2015-02-26 through 2015-03-01 Saturday, 2015-02-28, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Organizer: Erica Chito-Childs, City University of New York – Hunter College Presider: Erica Chito-Childs, City University of New York – Hunter College Transracial Kin-scription:…

  • Symposium S-H09: Understanding the Dynamics of Beliefs in Genetic and Racial Essences

    Symposium S-H09: Understanding the Dynamics of Beliefs in Genetic and Racial Essences The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 16th Annual Convention Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center Long Beach, California 2015-02-26 through 2015-02-28 Saturday, 2015-02-28, 15:30-16:45 PST (Local Time) Room 202ABC Chair: Franki Kung University of Waterloo Co-Chair: Melody Chao Hong Kong University of…

  • The Secret History of South Asian & African American Solidarity

    The Secret History of South Asian & African American Solidarity NBC News 2015-02-16 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Most Americans know about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s adoption of Gandhian non-violent principles. Not as well known is the shared solidarity between South Asians and African Americans that dates back over a hundred years. For African American History…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race

    Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race University of California, Los Angeles School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East 1242 Law Building Los Angeles, California 90095 2015-02-19, 17:00-18:30 PST (Local Time) Room: TBD Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • One Drop of Love

    One Drop of Love Northern Arizona University Ashurst Hall Flagstaff, Arizona Wednesday, 2015-02-18, 18:00 MST (Local Time) Performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. Presented by NAU College of Education One Drop of Love, is an hour-long one woman show. This funny, interactive and moving memoir explores history, family, race, class, justice and love and takes audiences from…

  • Are Mixed Race Asian/Whites, “Basically White”?

    Are Mixed Race Asian/Whites, “Basically White”? Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-02-17 Sharon H. Chang [She] never told the son who was crippled by polio about her relationship with his father. All she said was that the man was an American, a sergeant in the Army.…

  • Once White in America

    Once White in America Nation of Change 2015-02-16 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre provides a very intimate post-Ferguson view of what it means to her to raise her two black sons in the “afterlife of such a world.” Are we living in a world of American barbarism? For Adam and Khary Black bodies swingin’ in the…