Month: July 2013

  • Refusing to Identify by Race The New York Times 2013-07-11 Carlos Hoyt Andover, Massachusetts Re “Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?” (news analysis, Sunday Review, July 7 [2013]): I recently completed a doctoral study at the Simmons School of Social Work about people who are commonly ascribed to the black/African-American, biracial or multiracial categories, but who…

  • Race and ethnicity II: Skin and other intimacies Progress in Human Geography Volume 37, Number 4  (August 2013) pages 578-586 DOI: 10.1177/0309132512465719 Patricia L. Price, Professor of Geography Florida International University The intimate turn in geography has centralized approaches to race and ethnicity which foreground bodily encounters. The quirky spatialities of intimacy, involving not just…

  • I Am What I Say I Am Time Magazine 2001-03-18 Lise Funderburg According to Russell (my personal trainer by night, a lawyer by day, and a philosopher by disposition), I have white calves. Not white as in pasty, but as in Caucasian. My calves are–how to put it?–substantial, and their shape not only pegs me…

  • One of the key phenomena to understanding skin color stratification among African Americans is the history of sexual violence against African women by white men during slavery. “The social order established by powerful white men was founded on two inseparable ingredients: the dehumanization of Africans on the basis of race, and the control of women’s…

  • We speak of bastardization in the case of a mixed race (Mischlinge) that develops from fundamentally different races or racial mixtures, as, for example, one between Europeans and Negroes, Europeans and Asians, Europeans and Indians, Europeans and Jews, etc. Such mixed race individuals carry the contradictory trains of both races, resulting in a confusion. Bastards…

  • Brazilians of African descent demand equality Al Jazeera English 2013-07-02 Rachel Levin “Brazil is one of the most socially unequal countries in the world, we’re selling the image that everything is good and we’ll host the World Cup but it’s a country that denies opportunity to its own people.” —Lais Nascimento, student Eighty percent of…

  • Afro-Rebel (Or Why I am not an Afropolitan) Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-07-09 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London The following is from a discussion I recently took part in ‘Fantasy or Reality? Afropolitan Narratives of the 21st Century’…

  • Historicizing “mixed-race” and post-modern amnesia O Desafio da Diferença (Challenge of the Difference) Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 2000-04-09 through 2000-04-12 Grupo de Trabalho (Workshop) 5: Mixing it up with Mixed Race: Problematizing and Historicizing the Mixed Race Discourse Katya Gibel Azoulay [Mevorach], Associate Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Americans have…

  • Dwayne Johnson – ‘Race Shifter’ In A Post Racial World? Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2013-03-27 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer We all know that there’s been a lot of talk about how we are all now living in a “post-racial” society. Though I think, most of us will respond to that…

  • This family lives in the Stringer community of Jasper County. A school bus from Stringer white attendance center passes in front of their home and also a school bus from the white attendance center at Soso in Jones County. The School Board in Jasper County will not permit them to go to the white school…