Mixed Race Studies

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  • To Measure More Diverse America, Solution May Be in Census Questions

    To Measure More Diverse America, Solution May Be in Census Questions The New York Times 2014-07-01 Tanzina Vega When Alexa Aviles received her census form in 2010, she was frustrated by the choices. Like all Hispanics, Ms. Aviles, a Puerto Rican who lives in Brooklyn, was first asked to identify her ethnicity and then to…

  • Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey

    Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey Africa is a Country 2014-06-17 Achal Prabhala Bangalore, India By the time you read this, it’s possible that every single person on the planet will know who Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior is… …You could come to any number of conclusions from Neymar’s remarkable transformation. For instance, you could conclude…

  • Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

    Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation University of North Carolina Press May 2009 328 pages 36 illus., 5 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5934-6 Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., Associate Professor of History; Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York For most of the first half…

  • ‘Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families’?: Slate’s Human Zoo of Race Mongrelization

    ‘Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families’?: Slate’s Human Zoo of Race Mongrelization We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even in the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-06-25 Chauncey DeVega, Editor and Founder Am I the only person who found Slate.com’s photo essay “Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families” to be very problematic? To my…

  • Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack

    Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack Race-work, Race-love 2014-06-13 Blanca E. Vega (@BlancaVNYC), writer, educator, and race-worker Sophia (@sophiagurule) on May 30th replied to my tweet about White Supremacy and Latinidad: “‪@BlancaVNYC : and yep ‪#nuncamas. this [choosing White on the Census] has haunted/shaped my life, and used against me,…

  • Seoul International Seminar on Racism/Mixed Race in Korea and Japan

    Seoul International Seminar on Racism/Mixed Race in Korea and Japan Yonsei University, South Korea 2014-06-21 through 2014-06-22 Co-organized & Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology & Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University …1:30-3:30 pm Mixed race/blood in modern Japan (Chair: Lee Sang Kook, Yonsei University) A.K.M. Skarpelis (NYU Sociology and Institute of Social Science, University…

  • Black Identity and Racism Collide in Brazil

    Black Identity and Racism Collide in Brazil The Root 2014-06-17 Dion Rabouin The country’s complex history with race gains the spotlight as the World Cup attempts to address the recent wave of racist attacks against black players. Before teams representing their countries from around the world arrived in Brazil, the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, took…

  • LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new book

    LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new book The Seattle Globalist 2014-03-25 Diane Han University of Washington We understand that race doesn’t exist biologically, but it doesn’t mean that race isn’t real. “We think we see race because it exists in the world, but really, we learn to see race,” says LeiLani…

  • Black In The Dominican Republic: Denying Blackness

    Black In The Dominican Republic: Denying Blackness HuffPost Live The Huffington Post 2014-06-10 Marc Lamont Hill, Host In Latin America and Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic many deny being of African decent, despite 90 percent of the population possessing black ancestry. Where has the blackness gone in the region? Guests: Biany Perez (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)…

  • One Drop of Love – a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at the Brooklyn Historical Society

    One Drop of Love – a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at the Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations 2014-06-12, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations and the Brooklyn Historical Society is delighted to host One Drop of Love, a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni that incorporates…