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Month: April 2013

  • Teaching & Learning Guide for: Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data

    This guide accompanies the following article: Nikki Khanna, ‘Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data’, Sociology Compass 6/4 (2012): 316–331, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00454.x.

  • Masters and Slaves: ‘Sugar in the Blood,’ by Andrea Stuart

    Masters and Slaves: ‘Sugar in the Blood,’ by Andrea Stuart The New York Times 2013-03-29 Amy Wilentz Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire By Andrea Stuart, Illustrated. 353 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her…

  • Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity?

    Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity? Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 14, Number 8 (August 2012) pages 657-663 Ramya Rajagopalan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Joan H. Fujimura, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology; Professor of Science and Technology Studies Robert F.…

  • A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner

    This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner’s complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner’s conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies…

  • Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line

    Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press) January 2002 416 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 1 halftone Paperback ISBN: 9780674006690 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory London School of Economics After all the “progress” made since World War II in matters pertaining to…

  • Generation Mixed and the One Love Club

    Generation Mixed and the One Love Club Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Amalgamation, Race, Class & Solidarity 2012-06-03 Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California The popular media and specifically the Race Remixed series in the New York Times propagate the myth of multiracialism. According to this social myth, the increasing…

  • “Multiracial” Today, but “What” Tomorrow? The Malleability of Racial Identification Over Time

    “Multiracial” Today, but “What” Tomorrow? The Malleability of Racial Identification Over Time Paper presented at the Population Association of America 2005 Annual Meeting 2005-03-31 through 2005-04-02 Philladelphia, Pennsylvania 27 pages Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania We…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix

    Is postraciality just around the corner? How realistic are the often-heard pronouncements that mixed-race identity is leading the United States to its postracial future? In his provocative analysis, Rainier Spencer illuminates the assumptions that multiracial ideology in fact shares with concepts of both white supremacy and antiblackness.

  • Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (Sixth Edition)

    “Man’s Most Dangerous Myth” was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people’s character and intelligence.

  • Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris (review)

    Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris (review) The Americas Volume 69, Number 4, April 2013 pages 532-533 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0017 James Sidbury, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities Rice University John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris, eds., Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in…