Month: October 2013

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Twenty-First Century (ETHN 0090B S01) Brown University Fall 2013 Alexandrina R. Agloro, Visiting Instructor in American Studies This course will guide students through an understanding of the historical, contemporary, and ideological rationale behind the constructions of mixed race, and how mixed race theory plays out in history, art, and…

  • Transforming Korea into a multicultural society: reception of multiculturalism discourse and its discursive disposition in Korea Asian Ethnicity Volume 13, Issue 1, 2012 pages 97-109 DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2012.625703 Ji-Hyun Ahn University of Texas, Austin Since 2005, multicultural-based words such as multicultural society, multicultural family, and multicultural education have grown explosively in Korean society. Due to this…

  • School aims to give biracial kids a place to ‘be themselves’ Japan Times 2013-10-20 Michael Bradley, Special to the Japan Times NAKAGUSUKU, OKINAWA – Melissa Tomlinson doesn’t have very happy memories of elementary school. As an 8-year-old, she “never had a chance to eat lunch normally — the other kids put something in it, or…

  • Review of Adult Supervision at Park Theatre Finsbury Park LondonTheater1.com London 2013-10-20 Alan Franks, Senior Reviewer Adult supervision, if you remember, is what Barack Obama said Washington needed. This was back in 2006, two years before his election as forty-fourth president of the US, and the first black incumbent of the office. So there could…

  • Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 5, Number 2 (October, 1994) pages 243-266 Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign One of the most important insights developed in the fields of lesbian and gay history and the history of sexuality has been the notion…

  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed “Racism without Racists” documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society.

  • The Uniqueness of Dante de Blasio Gotham Gazette: The Place or New York Policy and Politics New York, New York 2013-09-24 Andy Beveridge, Professor of Sociology Queens College, City University of New York As New York took in the extent of the win by Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayor, the impact…

  • Geneticists and the Biology of Race Crossing Science Magazine Volume 182, Number 4114 (1973-11-23) pages 790-796 DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4114.790 William B. Provine, Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Cornell University Geneticists changed their minds about the biological effects of race crossing Geneticists in England and the United States clearly reversed their published remarks…

  • De Blasio Responds to Lhota’s Doomsday Ad With a Cheery One Politicker 2013-10-17 Colin Campbell Tale of Two Ads A day after Joe Lhota released an ad warning of apocalyptic results if rival Bill de Blasio is elected mayor–complete with photos of race riots and corpses–Mr. de Blasio is out with a new spot of…

  • Fitting Into the Right Box: Multiracial America on the Rise Brown Political Review 2013-10-18 Meg Sullivan As swimmer Michael Phelps knows, one of the highest priorities of food corporations is maintaining their squeaky clean mainstream appeal. This usually involves companies giving wide berth to any manner of controversy, but Cheerios ignored this policy four months…