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  • Millions of Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the next

      Millions of Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the next Pew Research Center 2014-05-05 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Social & Demographic Trends Project Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research…

  • Mexican Americans and the Question of Race

    Mexican Americans and the Question of Race University of Texas Press March 2014 184 pages 3 charts, 1 maps, 1 tables 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-75401-0 Julie A. Dowling, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies…

  • 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…

  • Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children – Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children: A Handbook for Professionals

    Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children – Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children: A Handbook for Professionals Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2000 336 pages 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85302-959-2 Edited by: Kedar N. Dwivedi, MBBS, MD, DPM, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist Northampton Child and Family Consultation Service Experts from a…

  • But your hair is so beautiful…

    But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo é tão bonito…” in Falando sem permissão) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly/kinky). It has gone…

  • Defining Mixed Race Feminism

    Defining Mixed Race Feminism Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. 2014-05-16 Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton …Question of the Day: What is mixed race feminism? Good question given mixed race and gender issues aren’t often brought in conversation together even…

  • Great Asian-Pacific American Authors: Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and More

    Great Asian-Pacific American Authors: Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and More Bookish 2014-05-15 Elizabeth Rowe May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage month in the U.S., and, to honor the occasion, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite (but by no means all of our favorite) authors of Asian-Pacific heritage who celebrate their cultures in their writing. From classics such as Yoko…

  • Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America

    Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America The Ethics@noon Series The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Stanford University 2011-02-04 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University On February 4th, 2011 Allyson Hobbs discussed the Jim Crow era as a watershed in the history of racial passing.…

  • One Drop of Love – Lounge Theater 1, Los Angeles

    One Drop of Love – Lounge Theater 1, Los Angeles Plays 411 May 2014 Saturday, 2014-05-31 20:30 PDT (Local Time) Lounge Theatre 1 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90038 How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo performance exploring family, race, love,…