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Month: February 2013

  • Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition

    Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition Polity Press February 2013 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7456-4965-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7456-4966-5 Paul C. Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition, Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in…

  • Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool

    Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…

  • Half-Castes versus Full-Castes?

    To-day there are no half-castes because there are no full-castes. Cedric Dover. Half-Caste. London, 1937. Secker & Warburg.

  • From the Golden Gate to the Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography and Meta-Critical Reflection

    From the Golden Gate to the Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography and Meta-Critical Reflection University of Vermont October 2012 65 pages Noelle Brassey A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Graduate College of The University of Vermont In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Specializing in English…

  • Identity Politics: the Mixed-race American Indian Experience

    This paper builds a Critical Race Theory approach to consider how mixed-race American Indian college students conform to, or resist, dominant black/non-black ideology. Current research on multiracials in the U.S. lacks the perspectives of mixed-race American Indians on the heightened disputes of “Indianness,” tribal enrollment, and tribal self-determination.

  • The Manifestation of Race in Everyday Communication Interactions in New Zealand

    The Manifestation of Race in Everyday Communication Interactions in New Zealand Unitec New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand October 2012 281 pages Elizabeth S. Revell A thesis submitted to the Department of Communication Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Communication This thesis examines the manifestation of race in everyday…

  • Five times more ‘G.I. babies’ than previously thought

    Five times more ‘G.I. babies’ than previously thought The Phillipine Star Manila, Philippines 2012-12-17 Jarius Bondoc There are five times more American “G.I. babies” in the Philippines than previously thought — and they continue to multiply. This is according to a recent study by a visiting American social researcher and professor in Angeles City, Pampanga.…

  • Colorism: The War at Home

    Colorism: The War at Home Ebony Magazine News & Views 2013-02-20 Chris Williams Dr. Yaba Blay discusses the history of ‘the color complex’ and how we can work to destroy it The “color complex” has remains a source of great controversy and pain in the African American community and across much of the African Diaspora.…

  • Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy

    “Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy,” by Samantha Nogueira Joyce, examines what happens when a telenovela directly addresses matters of race and racism in contemporary Brazil.

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Website is Launched

    Critical Mixed Race Studies Website is Launched Critical Mixed Race Studies Website 2013-02-20 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design DePaul University The new Critical Mixed Race Studies website has been launched! Critical Mixed Race Studies is the transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based…