Month: September 2011

  • The Mixed-Race Experience: Treatment of Racially Miscategorized Individuals under Title VII Asian American Law Review University of California Volume 12 (2005) Ken Nakasu Davison This article argues that the static legal construction of race has the dangerous potential to permit cases of racially-based discrimination, thus circumventing its prohibition in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.…

  • Developing critical race theory to study race and racism in China’s media: a case study of the chocolate girl’s bittersweet stardom on Go Oriental Angel California State University, Sacramento Summer 2011 105 pages Siok Kwan Teoh Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in COMMUNICATION STUDIES This study…

  • Choosing to be Multiracial in America: The Sociopolitical Implications of the “Check All That Apply” Approach to Race in the 2000 U.S. Census Berkeley La Raza Law Journal Volume 21 (2011) Alaina R. Walker I. INTRODUCTION Race in America has long been a contentious subject, especially when the government has been involved. Race can mean…

  • Phil Wilkes Fixico to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat 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, Heidi Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #225-Phil Wilkes Fixico When: Wednesday, 2011-09-14,…

  • Obama’s ascent to the (still) White House is part and parcel of forty years of transition from the Jim Crow order to a new racial regime. Obama represents the sedimentation of a higher stage of the “new racism,” one described by Dylan E. Rodríguez as a “multiracial white supremacy.” In the new phase of racial…

  • Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…

  • I say let him [Barack Obama] do his best to run the country, like any President, and the rest of us can do him a favor by not constantly debating how black he is or isn’t. Enough already. He’s the President, for Christ’s sake. Let him do his job. David A. Hollinger, “Chats: Is Obama…

  • Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…

  • Fatal Invention: Race and Science The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC Monday, 2011-08-15 Brian Lehrer, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis professor and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research…

  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities [Review: DaCosta] Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Volume 40, Number 5 (September 2011) pages 571-572 DOI: 10.1177/0094306111419111i Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities, by Sultana Choudhry. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 219…