Mixed Race Studies

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Day: May 22, 2014

  • The Origins of “Privilege”

    The Origins of “Privilege” The New Yorker 2014-05-13 Joshua Rothman, Archive Editor The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel…

  • Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe

    Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe Science Technology Human Values Volume 39, Number 4 (July 2014) pages 459-467 DOI: 10.1177/0162243914531149 Amade M’charek, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Katharina Schramm, Lecturer Institute for Social Anthropology Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany David Skinner, Research Convener; Reader in Sociology Anglia…

  • Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children – Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children: A Handbook for Professionals

    Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children – Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children: A Handbook for Professionals Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2000 336 pages 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85302-959-2 Edited by: Kedar N. Dwivedi, MBBS, MD, DPM, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist Northampton Child and Family Consultation Service Experts from a…

  • But your hair is so beautiful…

    But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo é tão bonito…” in Falando sem permissão) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly/kinky). It has gone…