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  • Denying Brazil (Review)

    Denying Brazil (Review) African Film Festival: More than just a festival Essays & Articles 2002 John D. H. Downing, Professor Emeritus of International Communication Southern Illinois University The documentary, Denying Brazil, is a plain-speaking and fascinating unmasking of the white racism endemic in Brazilian television’s most popular genre, which in the USA we would call…

  • A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA

    A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA The New York Times 2012-12-20 Jeff Z. Klein Seth Jones probably should have wound up a basketball player. He is tall, with a great vertical leap, and his father is Popeye Jones, who played 11 years in the N.B.A. and is now an assistant coach with the Nets.…

  • Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought

    Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought University of Notre Dame Press 2011 376 pages ISBN 10: 0-268-02982-2 ISBN 13: 978-0-268-02982-1 Edited by: Jorge J. E. Gracia, Samuel P. Capen Chair; SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature State University of New York, Buffalo Forging People explores the way…

  • The Moment of Theory: Race as Myth and Medium

    The Moment of Theory: Race as Myth and Medium W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University 2010-04-20 W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History University of Chicago Watch the lecture here.

  • Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range

    Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range University of Nebraska Press 1981 (originally published in 1927) 302 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8110-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3069-9 Mourning Dove (Humishuma) (1888-1936) Introduction by Dexter Fisher (Cirillo) One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of…

  • Changing Families

    Changing Families Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas December 2007 Caryn Aviv, Senior Instructor in Secular Jewish Society & Civilization University of Colorado, Boulder A Different Sexual Revolution The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Indiana University Press, 2007. 320 pages The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives,…

  • The Pedagogy of the Meaning of Racism: Reconciling a Discordant Discourse

    The Pedagogy of the Meaning of Racism: Reconciling a Discordant Discourse Social Work: A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers Volume 57, Issue 3 (July 2012) pages 225-234 DOI: 10.1093/sw/sws009 Carlos Hoyt, Jr., MSW, LICSW, Associate Dean of Students Phillips Academy Andover, Andover, Massachusetts Racism is a term on which a great deal…

  • The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives

    The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives SUNY Press October 2006 244 pages Hardback ISBN10: 0-7914-6893-3; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6893-7 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-6894-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6894-4 eBook ISBN10: 0-7914-8106-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-8106-6 Marla Brettschneider, Professor of Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Political Science & Women’s Studies University of New Hampshire Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Gay/Lesbian…

  • The Myth of Race

    The Myth of Race Argo-Navis 2012-11-27 154 pages 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0786754362; ISBN-13: 978-0786754366 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York City The Myth of Race deals concisely with a wide range of topics, from how the concept of race differs in different cultures and race…

  • Intermarriage and Multicultural Families

    Intermarriage and Multicultural Families My Jewish Learning 2012-12-13 Ruth Abusch-Magder, Rabbi-in-Residence Be’chol Lashon, San Francisco, California Like it or not, intermarriage is a fact in Jewish life. And for the most part the Jewish community has learned to live with it. Sure, different movements deal with it differently. Sure, some congregations are more adept and…