Category: Media Archive

  • “Land of the Cosmic Race” is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico construct their identities, attitudes, and practices in the context of a dominant national belief…

  • Chick Bloodaxe Books 2013-01-24 64 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852249609; ISBN-13: 978-1852249601 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London’s old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that…

  • This book takes its title from the homonymous novel by Nella Larsen who, during the Harlem Renaissance, posed the question of what it means to be black in a racist country.

  • Interviews with same-sex interracial couples–a topic on which there is very little research—allow Steinbugler to examine for the first time how everyday racial practices are shaped by sexuality and gender. Amy Steinbugler challenges the widespread assumption that interracial intimacy represents the ultimate erasure of racial differences.

  • A comprehensive and complex look at multiethnic Asian American identities Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanese American News & Culture 2013-01-01 Ben Hamamoto, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities, by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012, 248 pp., $21.95, paperback) The whole spectrum of the…

  • Racial Socialization of Biracial Youth: Maternal Messages and Approaches to Address Discrimination Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) pages 140–153 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00748.x Alethea Rollins, Instructor, Child and Family Development University of Central Missouri Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of North…

  • The past two decades have seen a growing influx of biracial discourse in fiction, memoir, and theory, and since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency, debates over whether America has entered a “post-racial” phase have set the media abuzz. In this penetrating and provocative study, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins adds a new dimension…

  • Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense Harvard University Press February 2013 384 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 2 graphs, 4 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780674064461 Edited by Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning in the School of Arts; Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine in the School of Medicine…

  • What does Martin Luther King mean to Latinos today? Bentley IMPACT – The Power of Ideas Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts 2013-01-17 Donna Maria Blancero, Associate Professor of Management “I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their…

  • The Fictive Flapper: A Way of Reading Race and Female Desire in the Novels of Larsen, Hurst, Hurston and Cather University of Maryland, College Park 2004 391 pages Traci B. Abbott, Lecturer, English and Media Studies Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College…