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Month: December 2012

  • Demographic Shifts Redefine What It Means to Be Korean

    Demographic Shifts Redefine What It Means to Be Korean The New York Times 2012-11-29 Choe Sang-Hun SEOUL, South Korea — Jasmine Lee realizes just how Korean she’s become when she breaks out in the language, forgetting that her Filipino mother on the other end of the phone can’t understand her. But she is reminded of…

  • Laylah Ali’s show both confounds and mesmerizes

    Laylah Ali’s show both confounds and mesmerizes The Boston Globe 2012-02-19 Sebastian Smee,  Art Critic Laylah Ali is an artist to reckon with. Any opportunity to see her work should not be missed, and for the next two weeks, the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, a small college gallery a short walk from the Hood Museum of Art…

  • Kant’s Race Theory, Forster’s Counter, and the Metaphysics of Color

    Kant’s Race Theory, Forster’s Counter, and the Metaphysics of Color The Eighteenth Century Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 393-412 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2012.0032 Sally Hatch Gray, Assistant Professor of German Mississippi State University This article argues for an understanding of Kant’s race theory as an integral part of his idea of nature and of humans…

  • How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences

    Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants, as well as U.S. citizens such as Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans, have become a significant portion of the U.S. population. Yet the U.S. government, mainstream society, and radical activists characterize this rich diversity of peoples and cultures as one group alternatively called “Hispanics,” “Latinos,” or even the pejorative…

  • The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Early Novels

    The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Early Novels positions: asia critique Volume 20, Number 4 (2012) pages 1067-1093 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-1717672 Deborah Shamoon, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies National University of Singapore Chijin no ai (Naomi, 1924) and Nikukai (A Lump of Flesh, 1923), by Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, were seminal texts in…

  • Genomics and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Statistical Discrimination

    Genomics and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Statistical Discrimination The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 308, Number 19 (2012-11-21) pages 1979-1980 DOI: 10.1001/2012.jama.10820 Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, Professor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Ten years ago, 2 events occurred that have transformed biomedical research. In 2001, the draft sequence…

  • The concept and measurement of race and their relationship to public health: a review focused on Brazil and the United States

    The concept and measurement of race and their relationship to public health: a review focused on Brazil and the United States Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health Volume 20, Number 3, Rio de Janeiro, (May/June 2004) pages 660-678 DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2004000300003 Claudia Travassos Departamento de Informações em Saúde Centro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica, Fundação…

  • Othering Obama: How Whiteness is Used to Undermine Authority

    Othering Obama: How Whiteness is Used to Undermine Authority Altre Modernità/Other Modernities ISSN 2035-7680 Number 3 (2010) pages 112-119 DOI: 10.6092/2035-7680/517 David S. Owen, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director of Diversity Programs, College of Arts and Sciences University of Louisville In this paper, I argue that the sociocultural structuring property of whiteness has been utilized…

  • Race Card Project Creates New Type of Conversation

    Race Card Project Creates New Type of Conversation The Associated Press 2012-11-30 Jesse Washington, National Writer on Race and Ethnicity She asked for just six words. Michele Norris, the National Public Radio host, was starting a book tour for her memoir, which explored racial secrets. Sensing a change in the atmosphere after the election of…

  • Multiple Voices: Racial and Ethnic Socialization Within Interracial Asian and White Families

    Multiple Voices: Racial and Ethnic Socialization Within Interracial Asian and White Families Alliant International University, San Francisco 2012 138 pages Publication Number: AAT 3517943 ISBN: 9781267486448 Sarah Kasuga-Jenks Presented to the Faculty of The California School of Professional Psychology San Francisco Campus Alliant International University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of…