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Month: July 2013

  • Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?

    Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? The New York Times 2013-07-06 Shaila Dewan, Economics Reporter gray318 As a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference…

  • Redefining la raza

    Redefining la raza U.S. Catholic 2011-07-06 Father Tom Joyce, CMF There use to be an unspoken pattern to Hispanic migration to the United States: Mexicans drifted to Los Angeles or South Texas, Puerto Ricans—soon followed by Dominicans—to New York City. Cubans stayed in Miami for a quick return to Havana that never came. Mexicans and…

  • Let’s face it: We need a new way to talk about race

    Let’s face it: We need a new way to talk about race U.S. Catholic July 2013 Anthony Walton Our conversation about race in America is still stuck in black and white. In order to move forward, we all need to learn a new vocabulary. By any measure, we are living in the best period of…

  • The End of the ‘Postrace’ Myth

    The End of the ‘Postrace’ Myth The Conversation: Online opinion on ideas and higher education The Chronicle of Higher Education 2013-01-14 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Over the past four years, it had become increasingly difficult to mount a public discussion about how racial bias continues to permeate our society, North and…

  • Children in Black and Mulatto Families

    Children in Black and Mulatto Families American Journal of Sociology Volume  39, Number 1 (July 1933) pages 12-29 E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962), Professor of Sociology Fisk University Although the belief in the hereditary inferiority of the mulatto has been slowly dissipated by the accumulation of scientific knowledge, it is still echoed occasionally in scientific studies.…

  • UW communication professor unveils new book about race

    UW communication professor unveils new book about race The Daily of the University of Washington 2013-02-07 LaVendrick Smith Ralina Joseph discusses her book cover art at “Troubling the Family and Transcending Blackness” held at the UW bookstore. Photo by Dario Nanbu Race, reality, and pop culture collide in a new book written by one UW…

  • Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities

    Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2011) pages 59-86 Christopher Ogolla, LL.M., J.D., M.A., M.P.H., B.A., Academic Support Instructor Thurgood Marshall School of Law Texas Southern University This paper explores the…

  • Of Loving and Zimmerman

    Of Loving and Zimmerman Univision Communications, Inc. 2013-06-26 Carlos Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Riverside In my last blog I addressed the question of Latino identity by examining the controversy in “Is the New Pope Latino?” I responded with an emphatic “yes” (in about 500 words). Since then, three separate items relating…

  • Winners of 1st Korea Multicultural Youth Awards

    Winners of 1st Korea Multicultural Youth Awards The Korea Times 2012-12-12 Jun Ji-hye Habitus, a student volunteer group at Yongmoon High School in Seoul, has worked for vulnerable members of society such as the disabled, senior citizens and multiracial children. Among their good works, running the study room for elementary school students from multiracial families…

  • A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR’s ranks

    A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR’s ranks The Washington Post 2013-06-29 Darryl Fears Reisha Raney’s role in Friday night’s Daughters of the American Revolution ceremony for the military was minor. She carried Virginia’s flag in a procession that walked a few steps down a carpeted aisle at Constitution Hall and then…