Day: August 15, 2011

  • 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,…

  • Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific Between the Wars Australian Historical Studies Volume 40, Issue 2, 2009 pages 143-160 DOI: 10.1080/10314610902849302 Warwick Anderson, Professor of History University of Sydney The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in…