Day: May 3, 2013

  • Contact of Races in Brazil Social Forces Volume 19, Number 4 (May, 1941) pages 533-538 DOI: 10.2307/2571211 Arthur Ramos University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL, as well as other American countries, was originally a land of conquests; the growth of its population has developed by the contact or confluence of European settlers with the…

  • Black and Bengali In These Times 2013-03-02 Fatima Shaik A new book traces the hidden story of a mixed-race community. The federal census taker comes every 10 years and, for most people in the United States, this has little consequence. But not where I lived, in New Orleans, just outside the historic district of Tremé.…

  • “Colorblindness” Overlooks Structural Inequality Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-04-30 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Good morning.  Thanks to all who have been tracking with our multi-part series on Critical Race Theory and Christianity.  It seems like…

  • What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white?

  • The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards The Atlantic Press Releases 2013-05-02 For media inquiries, please contact: Natalie Raabe at  (202) 266-7533. Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y. (May 2, 2013)—The Atlantic won two National Magazine Awards, it was announced tonight by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates won in…

  • New Demographic Perspectives on Studying Intermarriage in the United States Contemporary Jewry Published Online: May 2013 pages 1-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12397-013-9103-9 Bruce A. Phillips, Professor of Jewish Communal Service Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles The study of Jewish intermarriage has largely ignored the measurement conventions prevalent in the field of demography such as…

  • Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race Social Forces Volume 85, Issue 1 pages 57-74 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0141 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Social constructivist theories of race suggest no two measures of race will capture the same information, but the degree of “error” this creates…