Month: August 2011

  • This study was conducted at a tribal college in New Mexico with selected mixed-race participants who identified as Native American, or acknowledged Native American ancestry. At the time of data collection, the school enrollment was 513 students, representing 83 federally recognized tribes and 22 state recognized tribes.

  • Home and Identity for Young Men of Mixed Descent Queen Mary University of London 2009 319 pages Akile Ahmet Mixed descent identities span ethnic, religious, and cultural identities as well as race. This thesis addresses the multi-layered identities embodied by young men of mixed descent in relation to their ideas and lived experiences of home.…

  • Rena’s Two Bodies: Gender and Whiteness in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars Studies in the Novel Volume 43, Numbers 1 (Spring 2011) pages 38-54 E-ISSN: 1934-1512 Print ISSN: 0039-3827 Melissa Ryan, Associate Professor of English Alfred University, Alfred, New York In a letter thirty years after The House Behind the Cedars was published,…

  • The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging Thursday Afternoon Forum Series University of California, Berkeley Center for Race and Gender 691 Barrows Thursday, 2011-09-29, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) Skin Tone Stratification Among Black Americans, 2001-2003 Ellis Monk Jr., Sociology “I’m Mixed and Mixed”: Narrating Identities of Individuals with Mexican and Other Ancestries Jessie Turner, Ethnic…

  • Pauline Black launches her autobiography Louder Than War 2011-08-04 Miles Barter Pauline Black launches her autobiography, ‘Black By Design’   Music was hardly mentioned as Selecter frontwoman Pauline Black launched her autobiography at Houseman’s radical bookshop in London on Wednesday evening (last night 3 Aug).   She told the 70 people packed into a sweltering…

  • Powerful autobiography from the front woman of influential ska band, The Selecter

  • Exploring Grays in a Black-and-White World Miller-McCune 2011-07-19 Julia M. Klein Two new books explore the intersection of race and identity in America by investigating families whose biracial members might—or might not—“pass” as white. Defining racial identity in the United States has always been a fraught enterprise, involving shifting intersections of law, custom, class, ancestry…

  • Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race The New York Times 2011-08-11 Dwight Garner Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. August is not half over, and already it’s been a punishing month for Barack Obama: the debt…

  • The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude Ethnic and Racial Studies Available online: 2011-08-01 18 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.589524 Graziella Moraes D. Silva Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Elisa P. Reis, Professor of Political Sociology Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The notion that racial mixture…

  • For black Britons, this is not the 80s revisited. It’s worse The Guardian 2011-08-11 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor Our MPs are ‘on message’, our media in decline and the Commission for Racial Equality abolished. Who speaks for us? This is not 1981. Nor 1985. As has been pointed out over the past few days,…