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  • SCIENTIFIC RACISM REDUX? The Many Lives of a Troublesome Idea

    SCIENTIFIC RACISM REDUX? The Many Lives of a Troublesome Idea Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2015 pages 187-199 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X1500003X Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Nicholas Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History. New York: Penguin Press, 2014, 278 pages, ISBN…

  • Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: How Asian Immigrant Backgrounds Shape Gender Attitudes About Interethnic Partnering

    Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: How Asian Immigrant Backgrounds Shape Gender Attitudes About Interethnic Partnering Journal of Family Issues Volume 36, Number 10 (August 2015) pages 1324-1350 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X13504920 Charlie V. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Ohio How do gender attitudes affect second-generation Asian Americans’ decisions to enter into interethnic heterosexual partnerings? A grounded…

  • Cosmopolitanism, Black Culture and the Case of Rachel Dolezal

    Cosmopolitanism, Black Culture and the Case of Rachel Dolezal Rooted In Magazine 2015-06-16 Annina Chirade In this past week the internet has been captivated by the unfolding tale of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who reportedly has been passing for black since 2007. She was, until recently, the President of the NAACP chapter in Spokane,…

  • Not Your Post-Racial Future: Why Interracial Families Need to Talk About Race

    I have this memory that’s been troubling me for a while.

  • Rachel Dolezal’s True Lies

    Rachel Dolezal’s True Lies Vanity Fair 2015-07-19 Allison Samuels Justin Bishop, Photography Photograph by Justin Bishop. For a time this summer, it seemed all anyone could talk about was the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president whose parents had “outed” her as white. The tornado of public attention has since moved on, but Rachel Dolezal still has to…

  • Tessa Souter sets her story to music

    Tessa Souter is known as a New York City singer-songwriter, but her biography runs much deeper. She’s taken a few detours on her way to the jazz clubs.

  • (Collective) Memory of Racial Violence and the Social Construction of the Hispanic Category among Houston Hispanics

    (Collective) Memory of Racial Violence and the Social Construction of the Hispanic Category among Houston Hispanics Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 1, Number 3 (July 2015) pages 424-438 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215576757 Elizabeth Korver-Glenn Department of Sociology Rice University, Houston, Texas Prior U.S.-based research examining the collective remembrance of racially charged events has focused on the…

  • Ep. 22 – Jennifer Frappier, Guest

    Ep. 22 – Jennifer Frappier, Guest Multiracial Family Man 2015-07-19 Alex Barnett, Host In Episode 22 of The Multiracial Family Man Podcast, host Alex Barnett (the White, Jewish husband of a Black woman who converted to Judaism and the father of a 3 year-old, Biracial son) is joined by guest, Jennifer Frappier, Producer and Event…

  • Irish Immigrants and the Underground Railroad

    Irish Immigrants and the Underground Railroad Medium 2015-07-02 Liam Hogan A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves, oil on paperboard, ca. 1862, Brooklyn Museum But the Irish are indeed a strange people. How varied their aspect — how contradictory their character. William Wells Brown (1852) What William Wells Brown should have said was “the Irish are human.” The…

  • Meet this year’s outstanding contributors at The Globies!

    Meet this year’s outstanding contributors at The Globies! The Seattle Globalist 2015-07-17 Christina Twu, Editor/Contributor The Seattle Globalist is proud to recognize three brilliant Globalist writers that have made outstanding contributions to our publication this year, helping to grow our coverage and make 2015 a phenomenal year for us. Please join us in recognizing these…