Month: March 2013

  • The Myth of Post-Racialism: Hegemonic and Counterhegemonic Stories About Race and Racism in the United States Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 7, Issue 1 (2011) (Special Issue: Post-Racial States) pages 2-25 Babacar M’Baye, Associate Professor of Pan-African Literature and Culture Kent State University In the United States,…

  • Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe [Review] H-net Reviews H-SAfrica April 2007 Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor of History Loyola University Maryland James Muzondidya. Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59221-246-0. Based…

  • Ben-Ur awarded study grant by Hadassah-Brandeis Institute In the Loop: News for Staff and Faculty University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012-12-13 Associate professor Aviva Ben-Ur of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a Senior Grant in History from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for her book project “Eurafrican Identity in a Jewish Society:…

  • Referential Ambiguity in the Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity Southwestern Journal of Anthropology Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring, 1970) pages 1-14 Marvin Harris (1927-2001) Categorizations elicited from 100 Brazilian informants through the use of a standardized deck of facial drawings suggests that the cognitive domain of racial identity in Brazil is characterized by a high…

  • Racial Identity in Brazil Luso-Brazilian Review Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter, 1964) pages 21-28 Marvin Harris (1927-2001) According to the 1950 census, the population of Brazil consisted of 61.66% brancos, 26.54% pardos, and 10.6% pretos. In the I.B.G.E.’s 1961 review of these facts, the following caution is registered: In order to avoid erroneous interpretation, it…

  • Pigmentocracy in the Americas: How is Educational Attainment Related to Skin Color? Latin American Pubic Opinion Project AmericasBarometer Insights Number 73 (2012) Vanderbilt University 2012-02-20 Number 73 (2012) 9 pages Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Liza Steele Department of Sociology Princeton University Executive Summary: This Insights report addresses the question of whether educational…

  • Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 55, Number 4 (July 2007) pages 709-734 Hugo Ñopo Inter-Amerian Development Bank Jaime Saavedra World Bank Máximo Torero International Food Policy Research Institute This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have…

  • Despite the race-mixers’ predictions, both past and present, the official encouragement and popular embrace of mixed-race practices and identities have not ended race or racism in Latin America. To be sure, blackness and Indianness as habitable identities have been dramatically weakened; however, this café con leche reality has not led to the demise of race.

  • Black German Heritage and Research Association Annual Convention 2013 Black German Heritage and Research Association 2013-01-29 The third annual convention of the Black German Heritage and Research Association (formerly the Black German Cultural Society NJ) will be held on August 8-11, 2013, at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. This year’s convention will focus on Black…

  • Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority [Andrews Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 918-919 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.758864 Matthew T. M. Andrews Department of Sociology University of Michigan Andrew J. Jolivétte (ed), Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority, Bristol: Policy…