Month: December 2012

  • Olsen: A multiracial, multiethnic future Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City, Utah 2012-12-28 Erica Olsen Recent political analysis has focused on the decline of the white vote, and a corresponding rise in the number of minority voters. According to exit polls in November, President Barack Obama won the votes of about 93 percent of African…

  • Census Bureau Rethinks The Best Way To Measure Race National Public Radio 2012-12-27 Corey Dade, National Correspondent, Digital News Possible revisions to how the decennial census asks questions about race and ethnicity have raised concerns among some groups that any changes could reduce their population count and thus weaken their electoral clout. The Census Bureau…

  • Choice—especially around identity—is a fascinating subject in and of itself. How we choose to identify is intensely personal for many, and perhaps particularly perplexing for some Mixed-race identified people, as it inherently calls into question our notions of “race”. Having said that, I can only speak for myself, and I have chosen to identify as…

  • Triple Jeopardy: Family Stresses and Subsequent Divorce Following the Adoption of Racially and Ethnically Mixed Children Journal of Divorce Volume 4, Issue 4, 1982 pages 43-55 DOI: 10.1300/J279v04n04_03 Perihan Aral Rosenthal, MD The adoption of racially, ethnically, or culturally different older children creates a stressful process of integration for both the children and parents. If…

  • Racial endogamy in Great Britain: A cross-national perspective Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 3, Issue 2 (1980) pages 224-235 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.1980.9993301 Richard T. Schaefer, Professor of Sociology DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Introduction Large numbers of Blacks and Asians have migrated to Great Britain since World War II, and especially between 1955 and 1967. These ‘coloured’ people,…

  • Race, ideas, and ideals: A comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F.K. Günther History of European Ideas Volume 32, Issue 3, 2006 pages 313-332 DOI: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.05.001 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel This article compares two radically opposed views concerning “race” in the first half of…

  • Book Review: Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants 2012-12-26 Nancy Matsumoto Growing up in predominantly white Marin County, mixed-race yonsei Akemi Johnson hates her name and just wants to blend in. In college, though, her attitude changes. She studies race and ethnicity and travels to…

  • Alden J. Blethen vs. Jack Johnson The Seattle Republican Seattle, Washington Volume XV, Number 43 1909-03-19 page 1, column 3 Source: United States Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers How perfectly natural for some folk to strain at a gnat and yet gulp down a camel; to see a pigeon on a barn,…

  • Inter-Marriage of Whites and Negroes Less Common than Formerly—The Plan of Despotism a Failure—Progress of the Colored Race.

  • Soledad O’Brien: A woman of many backgrounds Irish Voice 2009-07-22 Cahir O’Doherty, Arts Editor and Feature Writer Maria de la Soledad Teresa O’Brien’s name is like a bridge across cultures. In Spanish her full name means “The Blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude,” and when she first started working in the media many people quietly suggested…