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  • Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads

    Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads The Washington Post 2015-12-29 Max Ehrenfreund A new study shows that negative ads targeting President Obama in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers’ racial biases. The finding reinforces charges that some Republican politicians…

  • Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns

    Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns Public Opinion Quarterly First published online: 2015-12-17 DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv046 Solomon Messing, Director of Data Labs Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. Maria Jabon, Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn, Mountain View, California Ethan Plaut, Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University, Stanford, California Researchers manipulated the tone of President…

  • A More Perfect Union: Black Freedoms, White Houses

    A More Perfect Union: Black Freedoms, White Houses Public Culture Volume 28, Number 1, January 2016 pages 63-87 DOI: 10.1215/08992363-3325016 Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois President Barack Obama signifies both the power of the institutional presidency and the legacy of black freedom struggles. His post in…

  • Making Blackness, Making Policy

    Making Blackness, Making Policy argues that blackness and black people are literally made rather than discovered. The social construction of blackness involves the naming of individuals as black, and the subsequent interaction between this naming and racial projects. The process of naming involves an intersubjective dialogue in which racial self-identification and ascription by others lead…

  • White Latino Racism on the Rise: It’s Time for a Serious Conversation on Euro-Diasporic Whiteness

    White Latino Racism on the Rise: It’s Time for a Serious Conversation on Euro-Diasporic Whiteness Latino Rebels 2015-12-21 Wiliam Garcia A common misconnection that exists today rests on the notion that there are no racial hierarchies in Latin American countries or within the Latino communities in the United States. In other words, Latino (or Hispanic)…

  • 17 Of The Most Powerful Things Latinos Said In 2015 That Got Us Thinking

    17 Of The Most Powerful Things Latinos Said In 2015 That Got Us Thinking The Huffington Post 2015-12-22 Carolina Moreno, Latino Voices Editor Diversity, immigration, feminism and more — these celebrities covered it all. Latinos gave us plenty to think about in 2015, and it’s time to revisit some of the best mic drop moments…

  • A Radical Solution to the Race Problem

    A Radical Solution to the Race Problem Philosophy of Science Volume 81, Number 5 (December 2014) pages 1025-1038 DOI: 10.1086/677694 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania It has become customary among philosophers and biologists to claim that folk racial classification has no biological basis. This paper attempts to debunk that view. In…

  • Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

    Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Rutgers University Press 2015-05-12 256 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7070-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7069-3 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7071-6 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7537-7 Jennifer Ann Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an…

  • Analogizing Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage

    Analogizing Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage Philosophy and Rhetoric Volume 48, Number 4, 2015 pages 561-582 Isaac West, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee “Like race” analogies have been critiqued from various perspectives, and this article enters that conversation to engage those criticisms from a rhetorical perspective. In short, this article makes a…

  • Tais Araujo: Fighting Brazil’s Racism Takes More Than A Hashtag

    Tais Araujo: Fighting Brazil’s Racism Takes More Than A Hashtag teleSUR 2015-11-18 Leopoldo Duarte Taís Araújo‬’s profile picture on her Twitter account. | Photo: Twitter, @taisdeverdade Most Brazilians take pride in living in a “racial democracy.” According to them Brazil is supposedly a country that evaded racism through the amicable blending of its native, African…