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  • In Wake of Zimmerman Verdict, Obama Makes Extensive Statement on Race in America [with video]

    In Wake of Zimmerman Verdict, Obama Makes Extensive Statement on Race in America [with video] The New York Times 2013-07-19 Mark Landler, White House Correspondent Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Obama, making a surprise appearance on Friday in the White House briefing room to address the verdict in the Trayvon Martin…

  • Perceiving a Presidency in Black (and White): Four Years Later

    Perceiving a Presidency in Black (and White): Four Years Later Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy First published online: 2013-06-25 DOI: 10.1111/asap.12018 Sarah E. Gaither Tufts University Leigh S. Wilton Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Danielle M. Young Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey When Barack Obama became the “first Black President”…

  • Relevance of Race: Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans

    Relevance of Race: Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 16, Number 2, June 2013 pages 189-221 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2013.0019 Kelly H. Chong, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Kansas Asian Americans have historically enjoyed one of the highest rates of intermarriage of…

  • Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru

    Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru University Press of Florida 2011-04-17 246 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3574-1 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4449-1 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English—in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades—to address…

  • An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

    An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World Berghahn Books 2003 176 pages index Hardback ISBN: 978-1-57181-607-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57181-608-5 Miguel Vale de Almeida,  Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years,…

  • The Colours of the Empire: Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism

    This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.

  • Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo

    Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo Africa Today Volume 59, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 68-90 DOI: 10.1353/at.2013.0027 Karin van Bemmel Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium In November 2008, millions of Kenyan citizens expressed their happiness about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Four years later, people…

  • Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ‘Jews’ in the Twenty-First Century

    Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ‘Jews’ in the Twenty-First Century Berghahn Books May 2013 398 pages bibliog., index Hardback ISBN: 978-0-85745-892-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-85745-893-3 Edited by: Efraim Sicher, Professor of Comparative and English Literature Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and…

  • Black And Jewish And Read All Over

    Black And Jewish And Read All Over The Jewish Week 2013-07-16 Julie Wiener She may currently live on the Upper East Side, but Simone Weichselbaum, 31, remains a Brooklyn girl. Raised in Williamsburg and Crown Heights by her Ashkenazi Jewish dad (who freelances for The Jewish Week) and Jamaican mom, Weichselbaum, a Park East Day…

  • Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color

    Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books 2013-03-19 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky Recently reading Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom got me to wondering if Frankfort had any black…