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  • Rethinking 21st Century Racism on the Way Home

    Rethinking 21st Century Racism on the Way Home GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 27, Issue 2 (May-July 2014) Victoria Massie, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley Returning home from fieldwork can be difficult when you find yourself caught between an unintended call back to your project and the impending reality that…

  • Brute Ideology

    Brute Ideology Dissent Fall 2014 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Director, Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History Harvard University Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields. Verso, 2012, 310 pp. The Problem of Slavery in…

  • Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.”

  • The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

    The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science Published online: 2014-12-03 15 pages DOI: 10.1038/nature13997 Deepti Gurdasani Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom et. al. Given the importance of Africa to studies of human origins and disease susceptibility, detailed characterization of African genetic…

  • Justice Alito’s Dissent in Loving v. Virginia

    Justice Alito’s Dissent in Loving v. Virginia Boston College Law Review Volume 55, Issue 5 (November 2014) pages 1563-1611 Christopher R. Leslie, Chancellor’s Professor of Law University of California, Irvine In 1967, in Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down miscegenation statutes, which criminalized interracial marriage, as unconstitutional. In 2013, the Court…

  • Here, There, and In Between: Travel as Metaphor in Mixed Race Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance

    Here, There, and In Between: Travel as Metaphor in Mixed Race Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2014-05-09 Colin Enriquez English Department Created to comment on Antebellum and Reconstruction literature, the tragic mulatto concept is habitually applied to eras beyond the 19th century. The tragic mulatto has become an end rather than…

  • UNPOPULAR OPINION: 6 Reasons Why Your Utopic Vision for a Mixed-Race Future is My Nightmare

    Guess what? One day, when we’re all mixed race, racism won’t magically disappear.

  • New doc on Shadeism doesn’t make the cut

    New doc on Shadeism doesn’t make the cut Mixed In Canada 2014-12-08 Rema Tavares Debuting November 10th, 2014 on the CBC’s free preview on their documentary channel, Hue: A Matter of Colour opens with the narrator and main subject, Vic Sarin, discussing his relationship to his mixed-race family (or if anything lack thereof). This movie,…

  • Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census: Improving Data to Capture a Multiethnic America

    Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census: Improving Data to Capture a Multiethnic America The Leadership Conference Education Fund Washington, D.C. November 2014 36 pages “Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census” is the culmination of The Leadership Conference Education Fund’s year-long project to examine the Census Bureau’s research and testing program from the perspective…

  • Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy

    Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy The New York Times 2014-12-08 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — As crowds of people staged “die-ins” across the country last week to protest the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers, young African-American activists were…