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  • Dr. Rebecca King O’Riain gives opening keynote address

    Dr. Rebecca King O’Riain gives opening keynote address Maynooth University Maynooth University Department of Sociology Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland 2014-11-27 Dr. Rebecca King-O’Riain gave the opening keynote address on “mixed race, transconnectivity and the global imagination” at the critical mixed race studies conference on 13 November, 2014 at DePaul, University on Chicago, USA. Her talk…

  • Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States

    Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States American Journal of Sociology Volume 118, Number 3, November 2012 pages 676–727 DOI: 10.1086/667722 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine The authors link the literature on racial fluidity and inequality in the United States…

  • Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms

    Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms The New York Times 2014-12-31 Justin Wolfers, Senior Fellow Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. also: Professor of Economics and Public Policy University of Michigan If the Census Bureau proceeds with a recently released plan, then in a few years’ time,…

  • Intermarried Couples and “Multiculturalism” in Japan

    Intermarried Couples and “Multiculturalism” in Japan CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 Volume 15, Issue 2 (2013) DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.2216 Kaori Mori Want Shibaura Institute of Technology In her article “Intermarried Couples and ‘Multiculturalism’ in Japan” Kaori Mori Want discusses why hyphenated names for the children of intermarried children are important for the achievement of…

  • Researchers have been thinking about race all wrong

    Researchers have been thinking about race all wrong Vox 2014-12-15 Jenée Desmond-Harris Studies on race are a dime a dozen: researchers examine its relationship to everything from elementary school test scores to who’s most likely to develop diabetes to which groups are overrepresented in ethnic militias to who Americans vote for, and we read about…

  • Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics

    Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics Annual Review of Political Science Number 19 (2016) 2014-10-05 49 pages Maya Sen, Assistant Professor Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor Department of Politics Princeton University Although understanding the role of race, ethnicity, and identity is central to…

  • The uncanny return of the race concept

    The uncanny return of the race concept Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Volume 8, 2014-11-04 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00836 Andreas Heinz Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Charité—University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany Daniel J. Müller, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Department of Psychiatry University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sören Krach Department of Child…

  • Beyond the ‘Race’ Concept: The Reproduction of Racism in England

    Beyond the ‘Race’ Concept: The Reproduction of Racism in England Sydney Studies in Society and Culture Volume 4 (1988) pages 7-31 Robert Miles, Associate Dean of Study Abroad and International Exchanges College of Arts and Sciences University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Large numbers of people continue for long periods of time to cling to myth,…

  • Multiracial Marriage on the Rise

    Multiracial Marriage on the Rise The Brookings Institution The Avenue: Rethinking Metropoliitian America 2014-12-18 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program One consequence of America’s diversity explosion is a rise in multiracial marriages. In 1960, before immigration levels to the United States started to rise, multiracial marriages constituted only 0.4 percent of all U.S.…

  • Defining Blackness in Colombia

    Changing definitions of blackness in Colombia, through the process of multiculturalist reform and after, are examined with a view to exploring which categories of actors were influential in shaping these definitions and which were involved in essentialisations and de-essentialisations.