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  • Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”

    Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy” Social SciencesVolume 11, Number 2, Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”Published 2022-02-21 Guest Editors: David L. Brunsma, Professor of SociologyVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Jennifer Sims, Assistant Professor of SociologyUniversity of Alabama, Huntsville Dear Colleagues, Social scientific scholarship on Multiracial experiences and processes of…

  • Killing Karoline

    What happens when the baby they buried comes back?

  • What We Lose

    A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death – from one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35

  • The Boundaries of Mixedness: A Global Perspective

    “The Boundaries of Mixedness” tackles the burgeoning field of critical mixed race studies, bringing together research that spans five continents and more than ten countries.

  • Eartha Kitt’s daughter reveals what her mother taught her about race

    Eartha Kitt’s daughter reveals what her mother taught her about race TODAY 2021-04-23 Kitt Shapiro, daughter of the iconic actress and singer Eartha Kitt, discusses her mother’s experience with racism, recounting watching her being turned away at a “whites only” amusement park in South Africa. Shapiro says that as she’s gotten older, she has more…

  • The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification

    This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world.

  • Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners

    For more than a century, skin lighteners have been an ubiquitous feature of global popular culture—embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists. In “Beneath the Surface,” Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond.

  • Separated at birth: Was my mother given away because she looked white?

    When a health emergency prompted Nathan Romburgh and his sisters to look into their family history, decades after the end of apartheid, they uncovered a closely guarded secret that made them question their own identity.

  • “How Does It Feel to Be Born a Problem?”

    Though Noah is not a trained sociologist, he uses the complexity and absurdity of his life to tease out numerous sociological concepts. Throughout his odyssey, he places issues of race and identity at the forefront. The most salient question is what does it mean to be born a problem?

  • Tanya Katerí Hernández

    The book has a special resonance for me as a comparative-race law scholar whose personal background as a black-identified mixed-race Afro-Latina traveling the globe informs her insights about the (in)significance of the growth of racial mixture to the pursuit of racial equality whether it be in the US, South Africa, or Latin America.