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  • Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color

    Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 420-441 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613395 Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Maria Abascal Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond…

  • Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification

    Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 390-419 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613401 Cynthia Feliciano, Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies University of California, Irvine Although race-based discrimination and stereotyping can only occur if people place others into racial categories, our understanding of…

  • Interrogating Race: Color, Racial Categories, and Class Across the Americas

    Interrogating Race: Color, Racial Categories, and Class Across the Americas American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 538-555 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613400 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Fabrício M. Fialho University of California, Los Angeles Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine We address…

  • Documenting Contested Racial Identities Among Self-Identified Latina/os, Asians, Blacks, and Whites

    Documenting Contested Racial Identities Among Self-Identified Latina/os, Asians, Blacks, and Whites American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 442-464 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613396 Nicholas Vargas, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Sociology University of Florida Kevin Stainback, Associate Professor of Sociology Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana A contested racial identity refers to incongruence…

  • Mat Johnson: Black & White & Read All Over

    Mat Johnson: Black & White & Read All Over The Austin Chronicle Austin, Texas 2015-06-18 Wayne Alan Brenner Our interview with the Houston-based author This is an interview with Mat Johnson, who wrote the acclaimed Pym – which is somehow a popular favorite and a cult favorite, simultaneously, we’d swear – and who is most…

  • “When I discovered that I’m black”: How racism is so cruel, that it makes it difficult for black people to recognize themselves as such

    “When I discovered that I’m black”: How racism is so cruel, that it makes it difficult for black people to recognize themselves as such Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2016-03-04 Jônatas Cordeiro da Silva Originally “When I discovered that I’m black: “I’ll tell my story, because I…

  • We Live Here rerun: Being biracial in America

    We Live Here rerun: Being biracial in America St. Louis Public Radio 90.7 KWMU, KWMU-2, KWMU-3: News That Matters. Saint Louis, Missouri 2016-03-07 Shula Neuman, Executive Editor We originally aired this podcast on what its like to be multi-racial about six months ago. The project was the brainchild of Emanuele Berry, one of the founding…

  • ‘Free State of Jones’ author talks

    ‘Free State of Jones’ author talks The Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi 2016-03-02 Author Victoria Bynum discusses her book, Free State of Jones, which is now a new Hollywood movie starring Matthew Mcconaughey. Watch the interview here.

  • Darnell Martin Has Looked At Racial Issues From Both Sides

    Darnell Martin Has Looked At Racial Issues From Both Sides Orlando Sentinal Orlando, Florida 1994-10-28 Glenn Lovell San Jose Mercury News Darnell Martin is talking about growing up in an interracial household in the Bronx and about a childhood that inspired her impressive debut feature, I Like It Like That. Her take on street life…

  • Kaleidoscope: Redrawing an American Family Tree

    In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis’s name and race had never been mentioned.