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  • “A Hindu is white although he is black”: Hindu Alterity and the Performativity of Religion and Race between the United States and the Caribbean

    “A Hindu is white although he is black”: Hindu Alterity and the Performativity of Religion and Race between the United States and the Caribbean Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 58, Issue 01, January 2016 pages 181-210 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417515000614 Alexander Rocklin Department of Religious Studies Willamette University, Salem, Oregon This essay uses the controversies…

  • Off the record: Wright State’s Natasha McPherson pulls histories of Creole women from obscure public documents

    Off the record: Wright State’s Natasha McPherson pulls histories of Creole women from obscure public documents Dialogue: Newsletter for Faculty & Staff Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 2015-02-03 Jim Hannah, Assistant Director of Public Relations Natasha McPherson, an assistant professor of history, has spent 10 years documenting the previously untold history of Creole women. With…

  • America Is Obsessed With Identity. Thanks, Obama?

    America Is Obsessed With Identity. Thanks, Obama? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-02-17 Alicia Montgomery Annette Elizabeth Allen for NPR When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, there was a lot of talk about “The Obama Effect”: how the nation’s first black president signaled a new era of…

  • I Feel Guilty for Being Able to ‘Pass’ as a Person of Color

    I Feel Guilty for Being Able to ‘Pass’ as a Person of Color Kveller 2016-02-18 Elana Rabinowitz Brooklyn, New York He called me negra. Not mami or guapa, but what translates to “black woman.” I wasn’t offended. More confused. The thing is, I’m really just a white Jewish girl from Brooklyn. There, I said it.…

  • Father Healy’s Imprint: Past, Present and Future

    Father Healy’s Imprint: Past, Present and Future The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2004-11-09 Moises Mendoza Every day thousands of students pass by Healy Hall and marvel at its towering steeples and complex intricacies. Few of them realize that the man responsible for this Georgetown trademark was every bit as complex and dynamic as the…

  • QUALLEN: Healy’s Inner Turmoil, Our Current Conflict

    QUALLEN: Healy’s Inner Turmoil, Our Current Conflict The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2015-11-20 Matthew Quallen, “Hoya Historian” School of Foreign Service Last week, President DeGioia accepted a recommendation to scrub the names Mulledy and McSherry from university buildings. The names Freedom and Remembrance took their places. Mulledy and McSherry symbolized what was most odious…

  • Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial

    Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial TIME Magazine 2016-01-28 Carey Wallace Study suggests it’s because they’re considered “intriguing.” One of the fastest growing racial groups in the country isn’t a single racial group–it’s people from multiracial backgrounds, the children of interracial unions. A new study has found however, that…

  • The Role of Gender, Class, and Religion in Biracial Americans’ Racial Labeling Decisions

    Racial attachments are understood to be socially constructed and endogenous to gender, socioeconomic, and religious identities. Yet we know surprisingly little about the effect of such identities on the particular racial labels that individuals self-select. In this article, I investigate how social identities shape the racial labels chosen by biracial individuals in the United States,…

  • What is the Defining Divide? False Post-Racial Dogmas and the Biblical Affirmation of “Race”

    What is the Defining Divide? False Post-Racial Dogmas and the Biblical Affirmation of “Race” Black Theology Volume 13, Issue 2 (August, 2015) pages 166-188 DOI: 10.1179/1476994815Z.00000000054 Kumar Rajagopalan London Baptist Association, London, United Kingdom This essay offers a critical reflection on the challenges of addressing the concept of “race,” and whether there is a post-racial…

  • Jewish Uses and Abuses of Martin Luther King’s Memory

    Jewish Uses and Abuses of Martin Luther King’s Memory Forward 2016-01-18 Jared Jackson, Founder/Executive Director Jews in ALL Hues Four years ago, I made a promise to myself: I would not accept any more invitations to speak to the Jewish community on Martin Luther King weekend. Since then, I have dutifully kept that promise. But…