Day: May 7, 2013

  • Race doesn’t fit in a checkbox Arkansas Times Little Rock, Arkansas 2013-05-02 Gene Lyons Lamentably, the Boston Marathon bombing re-opened some of the most poisonous arguments in American life. Specifically, are the Tsarnaev brothers “white”? It’s a meaningless question. Some hotheads couldn’t wait to declare all Muslims suspect. Certain thinkers on the left (David Sirota,…

  • America is preoccupied with race statistics–perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side?

  • A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 Duke University Press 2007 256 pages 29 illus., 8 tables, 1 map Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4081-2  Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4060-7 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature…

  • The Rise of Ethnic Pride for Multicultural Americans TheGuyOnSports 2013-04-13 Damien Haynes In America, race and skin color are some of the most critiqued and analyzed issues within our society. For some people, growing up of mixed race decent can either be a detriment or a blessing. It can separate you from the rest of…