Category: Media Archive

  • “Not Tainted by the Past”: Re-Constructions and Negotiations of Coloured Identities Among University Coloured Students in Post- Apartheid South Africa University of Pittsburgh 2013 152 pages Sardana Nikolaeva The South African coloured identity is a profoundly complex construction that, on the one hand, is interpreted as an ambiguous and ‘in-between’ identity and, on the other…

  • Belle: Toronto Review The Hollywood Reporter 2013-09-12 John DeFore The true story of a mixed-race child raised by British aristocrats is lightly fictionalized by Amma Asante. TORONTO — Hoping to use some Jane Austen-style courtship anxiety to lend drama to an episode in 18th-century English history that is novel enough on its own, Amma Asante’s…

  • The Changing Face of America National Geographic Magazine October 2013 Special 125th Anniversary Issue: The Power of Photography Lise Funderburg Photography by Martin Schoeller Lise Funderburg is the author of Black, White, Other and Pig Candy. When asked, “What are you?” she often describes herself as a woman of some color. We’ve become a country…

  • Will Interracial Relationships Ever Be Common on TV? Bitch Magazine 2013-09-04 Sophia Seawell I’m usually skeptical of advertising. I know companies spend millions of dollars hoping that their body lotion or paper towels or lunch meat will bring me to tears. But ads are powerful. They’re a form of media where we see representations of…

  • Engaging Culture, Race and Spirituality: New Visions Peter Lang Publishing 2013 232 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4331-2327-6 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4331-2328-3 Cynthia B. Dillard, Mary Frances Early Endowed Professor in Teacher Education University of Georgia Chinwe L. Okpalaoka, Director of Undergraduate Recruitment and Diversity Services in the College of Arts and Sciences Ohio State University Engaging Culture,…

  • The renewed emphasis on population-specific genetic variation, exemplified most prominently by the International HapMap Project, is complicated by a longstanding, uncritical reliance on existing population categories in genetic research.

  • Black and white in America: The culture and politics of racial classification International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 7, Issue 2 (Winter 1993) pages 229-258 DOI: 10.1007/BF02283196 Ernest Evans Kilker The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and external…

  • Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States Demography September 2013 32 pages DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0242-0-0 Guang Guo, Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yilan Fu Hedwig Lee Tianji Cai Kathleen Mullan Harris Yi Li Self-reported race is generally considered the basis for racial classification…

  • Skin pigmentation, biogeographical ancestry and admixture mapping Human Genetics Volume 112, Issue 4 (April 2003) pages 387-399 Mark D. Shriver, Professor of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Esteban J. Parra Department of Anthropology University of Toronto at Mississauga Sonia Dios Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Carolina Bonilla Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Heather Norton…

  • Luck and a Shrewd Strategy Fueled de Blasio’s Ascension The New York Times 2013-09-11 Michael Barbaro, Political Writer The commercial that changed the course of the mayor’s race almost never happened. Bill de Blasio’s campaign team had mused about building an ad around his wife, Chirlane McCray, a telegenic African-American poet, then abandoned the concept.…