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Month: April 2013

  • ‘Una Raza, Dos Etnias’: The Politics Of Be(com)ing/Performing ‘Afropanameño’

    ‘Una Raza, Dos Etnias’: The Politics Of Be(com)ing/Performing ‘Afropanameño’ Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 3, Issue 2, 2008 DOI: 10.1080/17442220802080519 pages 123-147 Renée Alexander Craft, Assistant Professor of Communications Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This article analyzes 20th-century black identity in Panamá by examining how two distinct points on a spectrum…

  • Between: Living in the Hyphen

    Anne Marie Nakagawa’s documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized.

  • The Myths of Transcending Race and Post-Racialism

    The Myths of Transcending Race and Post-Racialism EthicsDaily.com 2008-11-11 Wendell Griffen, Visiting Professor of Law William H. Bowen School of Law University of Arkansas, Little Rock Rather than speaking about a color-blind or “post-racial” society, the pundits and other observers of the Obama election should hope that it marks a society committed to “post-racism.” Barack…

  • The Future of the Colored Race

    The Future of the Colored Race North American Review Boston, Massachusetts Number 142 (May 1886) pages 437-440 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have only reflected the mental bias…

  • The fascist who ‘passed’ for white

    The fascist who ‘passed’ for white The Guardian 2007-04-04 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Lawrence Dennis was a leading light in the American fascist movement of the 1930s. He was a fan of Hitler and a self-avowed anti-semite. Now a new book reveals that he was actually black—although even his wife didn’t know. Gary…

  • Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks

    Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks The Journal of Negro History Volume 3, Number 4 (October 1918) pages 336-453 Carter G. Woodson, Founder Although science has uprooted the theory, a number of writers are loath to give up the contention that the white race is superior to others, as it is still hoped that…

  • Blackness Is The Fulcrum

    Blackness Is The Fulcrum RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-05-04 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab I’m often asked why I’ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism. That might well be true since who doesn’t suffer…

  • Notions of race in modern-day Mexico addressed in lecture, exhibit

    Notions of race in modern-day Mexico addressed in lecture, exhibit The Daily Tar Heel 2013-04-03 Tat’yana Berdan The Daily Tar Heel is the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The complicated and nuanced issue of race in Mexico is often overlooked, but The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture…

  • Intermarriage, even at high rates, does not, however, encompass or even represent the scope and nature of ethnic relations in society.

    Intermarriage, even at high rates, does not, however, encompass or even represent the scope and nature of ethnic relations in society. While clearly influenced by the structure of ethnic group relations, intermarriage nonetheless is still fundamentally an interpersonal relationship. There has been a decided tendency to overemphasize the significance of outmarriage on the overall quality…

  • The Genomic Revolution and Beliefs about Essential Racial Differences: A Backdoor to Eugenics?

    The Genomic Revolution and Beliefs about Essential Racial Differences: A Backdoor to Eugenics? American Sociological Review Volume 78, Number 2 (April 2013) pages 167-191 DOI: 10.1177/0003122413476034 Jo C. Phelan,  Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) Mailman School of Public…