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  • Economic scarcity alters the perception of race

    Economic scarcity alters the perception of race Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Published online before print on 2014-06-09 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404448111 Amy R. Krosch New York University David M. Amodio, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science New York University Significance Racial disparities on socioeconomic indices expand dramatically…

  • World Cup Racism Undercuts Brazil ‘We Are Equal’ Campaign

    World Cup Racism Undercuts Brazil ‘We Are Equal’ Campaign Bloomberg News 2014-05-30 Tariq Panjq Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anna Edgerton Brasilia, Brazil It was just a regular evening of monkey noises and racial slurs for Brazilian soccer referee Marcio Chagas. Then he left to go home. As he entered the parking lot after overseeing the…

  • What Is Your Race? For Millions Of Americans, A Shifting Answer

    What Is Your Race? For Millions Of Americans, A Shifting Answer Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-09 Gene Demby, Lead Blogger Race is a much more elastic concept than we tend to acknowledge. American history has seen lots of immigrant groups that were the targets of suspicion and even…

  • “When I discovered I was black”, by Bianca Santana

    “When I discovered I was black”, by Bianca Santana Black Women of Brazil 2013-02-22 Originally published on 2010-02-12 by Bianca Santana as “quando me descobri negra” Bianca Santana I have been black for less than a year. Before, I was morena. My color was practically a prank of the sun. I was a morena for…

  • 687.8: The Apple Does NOT Fall FAR from the Tree: Offspring of Interracial Marriages in Brazil

    687.8: The Apple Does NOT Fall FAR from the Tree: Offspring of Interracial Marriages in Brazil XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 09:54 JST (Local Time) Room: Booth 54 Kaizô Iwakami Beltrão Ebape, FGV, Rio de Janeiro,…

  • JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage

    JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage—who is and who…

  • Elliot Rodger at the Sometimes Troubling Intersection of Race and Gender

    Elliot Rodger at the Sometimes Troubling Intersection of Race and Gender Diverse: Issues In Higher Education 2014-06-04 Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Gender Studies East Tennessee State University Many have now heard of Elliot Rodger, the self-hating, misogynistic 22-year-old man who shot more than a dozen people and murdered six in…

  • Pinpointing Another Reason That More Hispanics Are Identifying as White

    Pinpointing Another Reason That More Hispanics Are Identifying as White The New York Times 2014-06-02 Nate Cohn Recently, I wrote about new research that showed that a net 1.2 million Hispanics changed their racial identification from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. Manuel Pastor, a professor at the University of…

  • Are Latinos Really Turning White?

    Are Latinos Really Turning White? Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2014-05-29 Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies University of Southern California Writing for The New York Times, Nate Cohn recently reported that more Hispanics are identifying as white. The piece—which even includes a cute graphic in which a (presumably Latino) man steps from…

  • Skin Tone Stratification among Black Americans, 2001–2003

    Skin Tone Stratification among Black Americans, 2001–2003 Social Forces Volume 92, Number 4, June 2014 pages 1313-1337 Ellis P. Monk Jr., Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology University of Chicago In the past few decades, a dedicated collection of scholars have examined the matter of skin tone stratification within the black American population and found that…