Month: October 2012

  • Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape Chicago Tribune 2012-10-29 Dawn Turner Trice Laura Kina, 39, is half Asian-American and half white. Her husband is Jewish, and her stepdaughter is half Hispanic. Her family, including her fair-skinned, blue-eyed biological daughter, lives near Devon Avenue in the heart of Chicago’s Indian and Pakistani community. Kina, who’s…

  • The Price of a Black President The New York Times 2012-10-27 Frederick C. Harris, Professor of Political Science;  Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies; Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society Columbia University WHEN African-Americans go to the polls next week, they are likely to support Barack Obama at a…

  • Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Journal of American Ethnic History Volume 32, Number 1 (Fall 2012) pages 95-100 DOI: 10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.1.0095 Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee I DESIGNED MY FIRST COURSE, Mixed Race Identity in American Culture, an elective surveying the history of racial mixing in…

  • Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of an Interracial Family [Review] Reviews in History: Covering books and digital resources across all fields of history October 2012 Peter Robb, Research Professor of the History of India School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of…

  • Spirometry, Measurement, and Race in the Nineteenth Century Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 60, Number 2, April 2005 pages 135-169 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Race correction is a common practice in contemporary pulmonary medicine that involves…

  • Racial Commodification in the Era of Elective Race: Affirmative Action and the Lesson of Elizabeth Warren University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 92 31 pages 2012-08-20 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law Gould School of Law University of Southern California This Essay uses the current controversy over the racial…

  • Beyond Confronting the Myth of Racial Democracy: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Women Scholars and Activists Gettysburg College Faculty Publications Paper 1 (November 2007) 55 pages Nathalie Lebon, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania This paper offers a synopsis of the current scholarship mapping the social and economic exclusion of…

  • The essence of this [racial democracy] myth is contained within an allegory common to school texts in Brazil addressing the origins of that nation’s population: the “fable of three races” (Da Matta 1997). This fable holds that the people of Brazil originated from three formerly discrete racial entities: Europeans, Africans, and Indians. These “races” subsequently…

  • Race, Nation, And Cultural Identity In Brazil (AN200) IES Abroad Chicago, Illinois Program(s): Rio de Janeiro – Study Brazil Terms offered: Fall, Spring Enrique Larreta, Director of the Institute of Cultural Pluralism Candido Mendes University The main focus of the course is the construction of national identity in modern Brazil, exploring the different processes that…

  • Multiracial Children – How Racial Identities Develop City Families: Helping New Yorkers Adopt New York’s Children The Vincent J. Fontanta Center 27 Christopher Street New York, New York 10011 2012-10-26, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time)   Have you ever wondered about how children from multiracial backgrounds develop their racial identity?  Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ricia…