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  • The Color Of Health: Skin Color, Ethnoracial Classification, And Discrimination In The Health Of Latin Americans

    The Color Of Health: Skin Color, Ethnoracial Classification, And Discrimination In The Health Of Latin Americans Social Science & Medicine Available online: 2014-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.054 Krista M. Perreira, Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean Office for Undergraduate Research University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New…

  • A Verboten Topic: Elliot Rodger, ‘Mixed Race’ Identity, Internalized Racism, and Mental Health

    A Verboten Topic: Elliot Rodger, ‘Mixed Race’ Identity, Internalized Racism, and Mental Health We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-05-28 Chauncey Devega, Editor and Founder The 24/7 news cycle is not interested in finding the truth about a given matter, and then subsequently offering up useful information…

  • Race: More Than Skin Deep

    Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in the U.S., but for these Americans, race isn’t a black and white issue. HuffPost Live explores the experience of multiracial Americans and how outward appearance shapes their identities.

  • The Origins of “Privilege”

    The Origins of “Privilege” The New Yorker 2014-05-13 Joshua Rothman, Archive Editor The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel…

  • Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe

    Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe Science Technology Human Values Volume 39, Number 4 (July 2014) pages 459-467 DOI: 10.1177/0162243914531149 Amade M’charek, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Katharina Schramm, Lecturer Institute for Social Anthropology Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany David Skinner, Research Convener; Reader in Sociology Anglia…

  • Beyond the One-Drop Rule: Views of Obama’s Race and Voting Intention in 2008

      Beyond the One-Drop Rule: Views of Obama’s Race and Voting Intention in 2008 Sociological Science Volume 1, March 2014 (2014-04-17) pages 70-80 DOI: 10.15195/v1.a6 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut David Weakliem, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut We use data from a national survey of likely voters conducted before the 2008…

  • A Portrait of Modern Britain

    A Portrait of Modern Britain Policy Exchange London, England 2014-05-06 100 pages ISBN: 978-1-907689-76-5 Rishi Sunak, Head of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit Saratha Rajeswaran, Deputy Head of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit People from ethnic minority backgrounds will make up nearly a third of the UK’s population by…

  • Communication Accommodation Strategies in Malaysian Multiracial Family Interactions

    Communication Accommodation Strategies in Malaysian Multiracial Family Interactions Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 118 (2014-03-19) pages 259–264 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.02.035 International Conference on Knowledge-Innovation-Excellence: Synergy in Language Research and Practice (2013) Organized by School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) Mahanita Mahadhir…

  • For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers

    For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers McClatchy DC: Watching Washington and the World 2013-08-22 Tim Johnson, McClatchy Foreign Staff MEXICO CITY — Flip through the print publications exalting the activities of Mexico’s high society and there’s one thing you rarely find: dark-skinned people. No matter that nearly two-thirds of Mexicans consider themselves moreno, the…

  • On race, the US is not as improved as some would have us believe

    On race, the US is not as improved as some would have us believe The Guardian 2014-04-20 Gary Younge Despite the legacy of civil rights, some doors remain firmly closed. And across the US, schools are resegregating At the march on Washington in August 1963, where Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream…