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Month: February 2010

  • Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana

    Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 32 May 2009 37 pages Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School Can Louisiana tell us something about civil law vs. common law regimes of slavery? What can…

  • “The Caucasian Cloak”: Mexican Americans and the Politics of Whiteness in the Twentieth-Century Southwest

    “The Caucasian Cloak”: Mexican Americans and the Politics of Whiteness in the Twentieth-Century Southwest The Georgetown Law Journal Volume 95, Issue 2 Pages 337-392 Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School The history of Mexican Americans and Jim Crow in the Southwest suggests the danger of allowing state…

  • Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology

    Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology News & Events York Univeristy, Toronto, Ontario 2010-01-28 The technology to turn oneself into a mixed-race avatar might be confined to movies, but Brian Banton plays with racial manipulations of himself online, wrote the Toronto Star (online) Jan. 27 [2010] in a story that included five photos…

  • Multiracial Matrix: The Role of Race Ideology in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws, a United States – Latin America Comparison

    Multiracial Matrix: The Role of Race Ideology in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws, a United States – Latin America Comparison Cornell Law Review Volume 87, Number 5 (July 2002) Cornell University Law School Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University This Article examines the role of race ideology in the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws.  Professor…

  • African Americans and National Identities in Central America

    African Americans and National Identities in Central America Rina Cáceres, Professor of Diaspora Studies Program at the Centro de Investigationes Historicas de America Central Universidad de Costa Rica Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mount Holyoke University Mauricio Meléndez An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually,…

  • Students’ growing refusal to state a race on forms frustrates school officials

    Students’ growing refusal to state a race on forms frustrates school officials Sacramento Bee 2010-01-18 Stephen Magagnini Sacramento, California — About half of the 37 students in teacher Jeanne Kirchofer’s Laguna Creek High School classroom, who span nearly every combination of race and ethnicity, have joined the growing number of California students who decline to…

  • Hideously diverse Britain: the college where histories collide

    Hideously diverse Britain: the college where histories collide The Guardian 2010-01-10 Hugh Muir It was 1940 and the 200 students of South West Essex Technical College posed ramrod straight on the sharply inclined steps; ties stiff, uniforms crisp. They were RAF ­cadets learning science and ­engineering at the place that was dubbed the People’s University.…

  • College applications in a post-race world: Admissions process will soon need to address class concerns

    College applications in a post-race world: Admissions process will soon need to address class concerns GW Hatchet Independent Student Paper of George Washington University 2010-01-14 Evan Schwartz, Columnist In a recent editorial for The Boston Globe, columnist Neal Gabler railed against what he referred to as “the college admissions scam” and a perceived bias in…

  • Six degrees of Princeton’s African-American history: America writ small

    Six degrees of Princeton’s African-American history: America writ small Princeton Alumni Weekly Rally ‘Round the Cannon 2010-01-13 Gregg Lange, Class of 1970 The New York Times’ recent genealogy study of Michelle Obama ’85, noting for the first time her slave and mixed-race heritage, seemingly surprised a broad swath of the populace. This indicates that we…

  • Geek Out: Mixed Race in America

    Geek Out: Mixed Race in America University of Californa, Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science 2010-02-10, 19:00 to 22:00 PST (Local Time) Geek Discourse Tour the “Race: Are We So Different?” exhibit and participate in a discussion facilitated by Dr. Victoria Robinson of the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies and American Cultures programs on what it means…