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  • Rivas awarded NEH Summer Stipends award to work on book

    Rivas awarded NEH Summer Stipends award to work on book News From Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia 2015-03-25 Dave Wellman, Director of Communications Telephone: (304) 696-7153 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Zelideth Maria Rivas, an assistant professor of Japanese in Marshall University’s Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a “very competitive” National Endowment for the…

  • The Culture of Curls: What Hair Really Means in Mixed Race Societies

    The Culture of Curls: What Hair Really Means in Mixed Race Societies The Yale Globalist 2013-12-24 Isidora Stankovic Timothy Dwight College Yale University Look through any fashion magazine and you might notice something puzzling. Almost without exception, models of every race have the same sleek, straightened hair. The message from these media sources seems clear:…

  • Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America

    Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 130-152 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0045 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University Latin American elites authored and disseminated ideologies of mestizaje or race mixture, but does the general population value them today? Using the…

  • 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…

  • 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:…

  • Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality

    Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich…

  • “Does it take work leaving your hair like that?” – We resist! Sou negra (I am a black woman)!” – The development of black identity for a negro-mestiça

    “Does it take work leaving your hair like that?” – We resist! Sou negra (I am a black woman)!” – The development of black identity for a negro-mestiça Black Women of Brazil 2015-01-15 “We resist! Negra Soy (I am a black woman)!” (August, 2014) from Biscate Social Club Lia Siqueira Lia Siqueira “Yes, it takes…

  • Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels

    chado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazils rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Miss Caldwell’s critical and biographical study explores Machado’s purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908.

  • Carl N. Degler, Scholarly Champion of the Oppressed in America, Dies at 93

    Carl N. Degler, Scholarly Champion of the Oppressed in America, Dies at 93 The New York Times 2015-01-10 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent For four decades, as a Stanford University scholar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a commentator who envisioned a future that did not repeat the mistakes of the past, Carl N. Degler endeavored…

  • The “Return” of Race in Brazil

    The “Return” of Race in Brazil Japan Sociology 2014-12-16 Chloe Lyu This blog explores life in Japan from a sociological perspective. It is produced by Robert Moorehead and his students at Ritsumeikan University‘s College of International Relations, in Kyoto, Japan. Different from the American white or black model of racial classification, there is a large…