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  • The Influences Affecting and the Influential Effects of Multiracials: Multiracialism and Stratification

    The Influences Affecting and the Influential Effects of Multiracials: Multiracialism and Stratification Sociology Compass Volume 8, Issue 1 (January 2014) pages 63-77 DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12100 Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl, Assistant Professor of Sociology Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina Early research on multiracials documents the existence of a newly emergent population, those who identify with more than…

  • I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway

    I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway The Atlantic 2014-04-14 Doug Glanville A retired Major League Baseball player explains how he’s trying to turn an upsetting encounter with the police into an opportunity for dialogue. It was an otherwise ordinary snow day in Hartford, Connecticut, and I was laughing as I headed outside to…

  • Mixed or Not, Why Are We Still Taking Pictures of “Race”?

    Just days ago PolicyMic put up a piece entitled “National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful.” In it writer Zak Cheney-Rice attempts to address the so-called rise of multiracial peoples which has captured/enchanted the public eye and with which the media has become deeply enamored.

  • Making the Modern Family: Interracial Intimacy and the Social Production of Whiteness

    Making the Modern Family: Interracial Intimacy and the Social Production of Whiteness Harvard Law Review Volume 127, Issue 5 (2014-03-17) pages 1341-1394 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law Gould School of Law University of Southern California According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family. By Angela Onwuachi-Willig. New…

  • The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) presents: (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race

    The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) presents: (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Busboys and Poets Langston Room 14th & V Streets, NW Washington, D.C. 20009 Sunday, 2014-04-06, 17:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Join us for a discussion with (1)ne Drop author, Yaba Blay! What exactly is Blackness? What does it mean to be…

  • Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians

    Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians 2014-04-05 Rolando Cocom School of Social Science The University of the South Pacific This is a research design of an explorative study to be conducted in Fiji on ‘mixed race’ persons of iTaukei and Indo-Fijian parentage. The study seeks to render an interpretive understanding of…

  • Where Did “Hispanics” Come From?

    Where Did “Hispanics” Come From? Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2014-03-29 Claude S. Fischer, Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley One may well wonder where the term “Hispanic,” and for that matter, “Latino,” came from. The press and pundits are all abuzz about the Hispanic vote, Hispanic organizations, and Hispanic cultural influences. Back…

  • Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

    How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in “Making Hispanics.”

  • Whiteness Without Complex?

    Whiteness Without Complex? Anthropology While White 2014-03-06 Sarah Abel, Marie Curie Fellow EUROTAST A couple of weeks ago I attended an event called ‘Color Without Complex‘, featuring a public conversation between image activist Michaela Angela Davis and ethnographer and publisher Dr. Yaba Blay. The discussion revolved around Blay’s recent book and accompanying exhibition, (1)ne Drop, which…

  • Becoming a black woman: an identity in process

    Becoming a black woman: an identity in process Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2013-07-31 Fernanda Souza “(…) We are born preta (black), mulata, parda, brown, roxinha (a little purple) among others, but becoming negra (black) (1) is an achievement.” (Lélia Gonzalez) “How (does one) to form an…