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  • Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries

    Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Available online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2015.02.002 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores University of Washington Fernando Urrea Giraldo, Professor of Sociology Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia Highlights We use two measures of race…

  • Our rising white-black multiracial population

    Our rising white-black multiracial population The Avenue / Rethinking Metropolitan America The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-02-23 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program The fastest growing racial group in the country is those who identify themselves as “two or more” races. Yet, perhaps most encouraging, as discussed in my book Diversity Explosion, is…

  • 279. Invited Thematic Session: Crossing Interracial Borders

    279. Invited Thematic Session: Crossing Interracial Borders Crossing Borders: 2015 Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, New York 2015-02-26 through 2015-03-01 Saturday, 2015-02-28, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Organizer: Erica Chito-Childs, City University of New York – Hunter College Presider: Erica Chito-Childs, City University of New York – Hunter College Transracial Kin-scription:…

  • Symposium S-H09: Understanding the Dynamics of Beliefs in Genetic and Racial Essences

    Symposium S-H09: Understanding the Dynamics of Beliefs in Genetic and Racial Essences The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 16th Annual Convention Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center Long Beach, California 2015-02-26 through 2015-02-28 Saturday, 2015-02-28, 15:30-16:45 PST (Local Time) Room 202ABC Chair: Franki Kung University of Waterloo Co-Chair: Melody Chao Hong Kong University of…

  • Controversial ruling in Spence unlikely to apply to many other estates cases

    Controversial ruling in Spence unlikely to apply to many other estates cases AdvocateDaily.com: Canada’s Legal News 2015-02-24 Lisa Laredo The court decision in Spence v. BMO Trust Company, 2015 ONSC 615 (CanLII) has led to concerns about court interference and uncertainty in estate planning. An Ontario court judge held a will to be invalid due…

  • In France, a Baby Switch and a Test of a Mother’s Love

    In France, a Baby Switch and a Test of a Mother’s Love The New York Times 2015-02-24 Maïa de la Baume GRASSE, France — When Sophie Serrano finally held her daughter, Manon, in her arms after the newborn, suffering from jaundice, had been placed under artificial light, she was taken aback by the baby’s thick…

  • Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

    Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South University of North Carolina Press February 2015 232 pages 6.125 x 9.25 11 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2187-6 Barbara Krauthamer, Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War,…

  • Box Marked Black + Futility of Nicknames

    Box Marked Black + Futility of Nicknames Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts: The Best of Performing, Literary and Media Arts KBOO 90.7 FM or KBOO.FM Portland, Oregon 2015-02-24, 11:00-12:00 PST (Local Time) Dmae Roberts, Host Dmae spotlights two different writers: Damaris Webb who’s performing her autobiographical play The Box Marked Black about growing up…

  • Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA

    Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA The New York Times 2015-02-23 Andrew Pollack The police in Columbia, S.C.,  released this sketch of a possible suspect based on DNA left at the crime scene. Parabon NanoLabs, which made the image, has begun offering DNA phenotyping services to law enforcement agencies. There were no known…

  • Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

    Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology University of Minnesota Press February 2015 240 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-8730-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-8726-8 Michelle M. Wright, Associate Professor of Black European and African Diaspora Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological…