Day: March 29, 2010

  • The Challenge of Identity: The Experience of Mixed Race Women in Higher Education [Book Review] Academic Matters Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Journal of Higher Education 2009-09-23 Yasmin Jiwani, Associate Professor of Communications Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada The gaps between policies and the realities of those to whom these policies are addressed remains…

  • Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies Volume 9, Number 2 (April 2009) pages 141-148 DOI: 10.1177/1532708608326606 Lorna Roth, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada This essay focuses on Binney and Smith’s creation and marketing of Crayola fleshtone art products from the late 1950s…

  • Multiracial versus Collective Black Categories: Examining Census Classification Debates in Brazil Ethnicities Volume 6, Number 1 (2006) pages 74-101 DOI: 10.1177/1468796806061080 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Current census debates in Brazil surrounding Brazilian race categories center on two contrasting proposals: the…

  • Multiracialism & the civil rights future Daedalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 53-60 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124406 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Spurred by a small group of activists in the 1990s, the American system of racial classification changed recently in a conceptually bold way. With moving…

  • Latin American critics have begun to argue that multiracialism, like racial democracy, functions as an ideology that masks enduring racial injustice and thus blocks substantial political, social, and economic reform.