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  • Confronting whitening in an era of black consciousness: racial ideology and black-white interracial marriages in Rio de Janeiro

    Confronting whitening in an era of black consciousness: racial ideology and black-white interracial marriages in Rio de Janeiro Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 10, 2013 Special Issue: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America pages 1490-1506 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.783926 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,…

  • 11 ways race isn’t real

    11 ways race isn’t real Vox 2014-10-10 Jenée Desmond-Harris It was surprising — and, to many, annoying — to learn that Raven Symoné, the brown-skinned girl who played the adorable youngest character on TV’s seminal black sitcom, The Cosby Show, doesn’t consider herself “African-American.” (In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, she said she thought…

  • America’s sex and race failure: Why Raven-Symone and an Ohio couple are struggling

    America’s sex and race failure: Why Raven-Symone and an Ohio couple are struggling Salon 2014-10-08 Brittney Cooper, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey How a TV star shunning labels, and a lesbian couple with a Black baby illustrate the fight to assert one’s humanity…

  • Indie Groundbreaking Book: (1)ne Drop

    Indie Groundbreaking Book: (1)ne Drop Independent Publisher October 2014 Craig Manning Western Michigan University Landmark Photo Essay Book Seeks to “Shift the Lens on Race” Has the social and political mindset on race in 2014 changed from where it was 100 years ago? What is the definition of “Blackness” in the modern age? These are…

  • Student Blog: Why questioning the existence of Afro-Mexicans is problematic

    Student Blog: Why questioning the existence of Afro-Mexicans is problematic Baker Institute Blog Insight and analysis from the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University 2014-08-25 Sharae DeWitt Rice University, Houston, Texas Race has been closely tied to Mexican identity since the Mexican Revolution in 1910. The national ideology is centered…

  • Black and Belgian: Navigating Multiracial Identities in Ghent, Belguim

    Black and Belgian: Navigating Multiracial Identities in Ghent, Belguim Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2014-10-01 Walter Thompson-Hernandez Introduction What does it mean to be Black and multiracial in Belgium? How does sub-Saharan African culture and experiences impact the lives of multiracial people or Afropeans in Belgium? How influential is the U.S. Black experience in the…

  • Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe

    Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe Routledge 2014-04-02 264 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-89743-3 Edited by: Michael McEachrane Foreword by: Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature King’s College, London Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that…

  • More Like Us: How Religious Service Attendance Hinders Interracial Romance

    More Like Us: How Religious Service Attendance Hinders Interracial Romance Sociology of Religion Volume 75, Issue 3 (August 2014) pages 442-462 DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru041 Samuel L. Perry Department of Sociology University of Chicago Religious service attendance is a consistently strong predictor of aversion to interracial romance, but intervening social mechanisms at work in this relationship have…

  • Special report: Why Brazil’s would-be first black president trails among blacks

    Special report: Why Brazil’s would-be first black president trails among blacks Reuters 2014-10-03 Brian Winter, Chief Correspondent SAO PAULO – Brazilians could make history this month by electing Marina Silva, the daughter of impoverished rubber tappers from the Amazon, as their first black president. Yet Silva is trailing incumbent President Dilma Rousseff, who is white,…

  • Latino and Race: Together and Separately

    Latino and Race: Together and Separately Latino Rebels 2014-10-01 Vilma Ortiz, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Just when I think that the notion of “white Hispanic” has faded away, several more commentaries continue to appear. All raise important points yet miss others that are equally important. (I want to thank Christina Saenz-Alcánatra…