Month: December 2012

  • Review: Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Southern California Quarterly Volume 94, Number 4 (Winter 2012) pages 492-494 DOI: 10.1525/scq.2012.94.4.492 Alex Jacoby Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in Sun Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 256 pp.) In the last decade there…

  • In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation.

  • Where Ethnicity Was Fluid The New York Times 2012-12-29 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent In “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America” (Harvard University Press, $35), Vivek Bald, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration:…

  • The Election of Barack Obama: How He Won Palgrave Macmillan August 2010 178 pages DOI: 10.1057/9780230111790 ebook ISBN: 9780230111790 Paperback ISBN: 9780230103511 Hardback ISBN: 9780230314603 Baodong Liu, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Utah This book examines the historical election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president from the perspective of racial relations.…

  • Blacks may be second class, but they can’t make them leave: Mexican racial formation and immigrant status in Winston-Salem Latino Studies Volume 10, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2012) pages 60-80 DOI: 10.1057/lst.2012.7 Jennifer A. Jones, SBS Diversity Post Doctoral Fellow Ohio State University, Columbus In this article, I investigate how race is produced by looking at…

  • Parental messages concerning Latino/Black interracial dating: An exploratory study among Latina/o young adults Latino Studies Volume 10, Issue 3 (August 2012) pages 314-333 DOI: 10.1057/lst.2012.24 Erica Morales, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Missouri Many immigrant groups have racially distanced themselves from Blacks due to anti-Black prejudice and stigma. Racial distancing can be transmitted to…

  • ETHS 309 D: Race & Ethnicity Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin Ethnic Studies Spring 2013 Cynthia Rolling, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology This course engages students in an analysis of historical and contemporary experiences of race and ethnicity in the United States as influenced by changing migration trends and economic developments. Special consideration is given to…

  • Political Attitudes and Ideologies of Multiracial Americans: The Implications of Mixed Race in the United States Political Research Quarterly Volume 61, Number 2 (2008) pp. 253-267 DOI: 10.1177/1065912907313209 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University A contemporary rise in multiracial self-identification provokes a number of questions about the significance that this racial identity…

  • On This Day: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement University of North Carolina 2012-12-05 Alison Shay On December 5, 1925—87 years ago today—the jury in the annulment trial Rhinelander v. Rhinelander found in favor of a mixed-race woman sued for marriage annulment by her white husband. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a wealthy white…

  • Is There Colorism on the Campaign Trail? The Root 2012-12-13 Keli Goff, Political Correspondent Experts weighed in on when skin tone matters in politics and society. (The Root) — The latest installment of CNN’s docuseries Black in America asked the question “Who Is Black in America?” and examined the issue of colorism: bias based not…