Month: August 2010

  • Fadeout for a Culture That’s Neither Indian Nor British The New York Times 2010-08-14 Mian Ridge CALCUTTA — Entering the crumbling mansion of the Lawrence D’Souza Old Age Home here is a visit to a vanishing world. Breakfast tea from a cup and saucer, Agatha Christie murder mysteries and Mills & Boon romances, a weekly…

  • Understanding Identity Differences among Biracial Siblings American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 Regular Session: Multi-Racial Classification/Identity Atlanta Marriott Marquis Monday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time) Session Organizer: Rebecca C. King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, National University of Ireland-Maynooth  Presider: Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor, Sociology…

  • Fluid or Fixed: Which is Better? Multiracial Identity Consistency and Emotional Well-Being in Adolescence American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 Regular Session: Multi-Racial Classification/Identity Atlanta Marriott Marquis Monday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time) Session Organizer: Rebecca C. King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer of Sociology National University of Ireland-Maynooth  Presider: Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University…

  • Society, politics, agriculture, and mixed-race unions in a coastal Georgia planter community

  • …One wonders whether any of the interwar eugenists, anthropologists, or biologists, Cedric Dover excepted, could have foreseen that in the twenty-first century to be both ‘English’ and ‘mixed race’ is not a contradiction in terms. And ‘passing’ has nothing to do with it. Lucy Bland, “British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar…

  • …Fleming’s use of the term ‘passing’ is also worthy of comment. Not only does it have the connotation of deceit and disguise, but it also implies that the offspring of mixed heritage could never be truly English, despite their birth in England and their English mothers. To cross racial boundaries (‘race crossing’) had two meanings:…

  • Mixed-race women’s experiences cannot be separated from the history of race and gender politics and contemporary racial debates. The history of hybridity is one in which bodies of mixed-race people have been observed, theorized about, and used as evidence in racial power debates, but their individual experiences are often disregarded. Women of mixed heritage, mixed…

  • Obama and Race in America The Huffington Post 2010-08-06 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In his first major comment on race and race relations in our nation since his “A More Perfect Union Speech” on March 18, 2008, President Barack Obama called for frank discussion about race last week. In both a speech…

  • Race-specific norms for coding face identity and a functional role for norms Journal of Vision Volume 10, Number 7, Article 706 (2010-08-02) doi: 10.1167/10.7.706 Regine Armann Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany Linda Jeffery School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Australia Andrew J. Calder MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge,…

  • The Social Position of White and “Half-Caste” Women in Colored Groupings in Britain American Sociological Review Volume 16, Number 6 (December 1951) pages 796-802 Sydney F. Collins University of Edinburgh Sociological studies of colored minority groups in Britain have so far been undertaken only on a limited scale. But the ever-widening interest being shown in…