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Month: April 2010

  • Race and Censuses From Around the World

    Race and Censuses From Around the World Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2009-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Different countries formalize different racial categories.  Below are examples of the ”race” questions on the Censuses of 9 different countries.   They illustrate just how diverse ideas about race are and challenge the notion…

  • What Does “Black” And “White” Look Like Anyway?

    What Does “Black” And “White” Look Like Anyway? Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2008-10-24 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Gwen Sharp, Assistant Professor of Sociology Nevada State College These two photos—one of Barack Obama as an adult and one of a young Obama and his Grandfather, Stanley Dunham—are a great opportunity…

  • The Census and the Social Construction of Race

    The Census and the Social Construction of Race Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2010-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethicity are social constructions, not biological categories.  The U.S. government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are “real.”  You can find them…

  • Does the British State’s Categorisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Meet Public Policy Needs?

    Does the British State’s Categorisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Meet Public Policy Needs? Social Policy & Society Volume 9, Number 1 (January 2010) pages 55-69 DOI:10.1017/S1474746409990194 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The England and Wales 2001 Census was the first to include ‘Mixed’…

  • Mixed Chicks Chat Interview with Steve Riley, Creator of Mixed Race Studies

    Mixed Chicks Chat Interview with Steve Riley, Creator of Mixed Race Studies Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #147 – Steven F. Riley When:…

  • ‘Passing’ Across The Color Line In The Jazz Age

    ‘Passing’ Across The Color Line In The Jazz Age National Public Radio All Things Considered: You Must Read This 2010-04-07 Heidi W. Durrow Heidi W. Durrow is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Law School. Her debut novel is “The Girl Who Fell From The Sky.” There are novels that…

  • One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan

    In “One of the Family,” Brenda Macdougall draws on diverse written and oral sources and employs the concept of wahkootowin—the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values relatedness between all beings—to trace the emergence of a distinct Metis community at Île à la Crosse in northern Saskatchewan.

  • The half-caste and the dream of secularism and freedom: Insights from East African Asian writing

    The half-caste and the dream of secularism and freedom: Insights from East African Asian writing Scrutiny2 Volume 13, Issue 2 (September 2008) pages 16 – 35 DOI: 10.1080/18125440802485987 Dan Ojwang, Senior Lecturer of African Literature University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Focusing on the work of Bahadur Tejani, Peter Nazareth and Moyez Vassanji, this…

  • Racially Mixed People, DDC Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups, and MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083

    Racially Mixed People, DDC Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups, and MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083  Cataloging & Classification Quarterly Volume 47, Issue 7 (October 2009) pages 657 – 670 DOI: 10.1080/01639370903112005 Julianne Beall Library of Congress, Washington, DC This article explores ways that notation in Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups of the…

  • The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York

    The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York The American Indian Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2010) pages 83-108 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0087 Tom Arne Midtrød, Professor of History University of Iowa In 1709 the English Board of Trade recommended the settlement of three thousand…