Month: June 2014

  • Race: A Starting Place Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 16, Number 6 (June 2014) pages 472-478 Brooke A. Cunningham, MD, PhD Health status, access to and quality of care, and numerous social factors associated with health vary across racial groups. Many applaud the collection and use of race data to identify…

  • “When I discovered I was black”, by Bianca Santana Black Women of Brazil 2013-02-22 Originally published on 2010-02-12 by Bianca Santana as “quando me descobri negra” Bianca Santana I have been black for less than a year. Before, I was morena. My color was practically a prank of the sun. I was a morena for…

  • Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. [Orihuela] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Published Online: 2014-06-05 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu027 Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. Charlottesville: University…

  • Almost Free: A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (review) [Lee] Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 2, Spring 2013 pages 252-254 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2013.0034 Deborah A. Lee, PhD, Independent Historian Stanardsville, Virginia Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia…

  • 687.8: The Apple Does NOT Fall FAR from the Tree: Offspring of Interracial Marriages in Brazil XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 09:54 JST (Local Time) Room: Booth 54 Kaizô Iwakami Beltrão Ebape, FGV, Rio de Janeiro,…

  • JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage—who is and who…

  • “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”: Troubling the Visual Optics of Race Flow Volume 17, Issue 9 (2013-03-28) Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies; Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies; Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign On February 26, 2013, the one year anniversary of…

  • After Tiananmen Square, New Lives On A New Continent Tell Me More National Public Radio 2014-06-04 Michel Martin, Host After the democracy protests were crushed in 1989, many thought China would turn inward. Instead, a million Chinese citizens moved to Africa. Howard French discusses his book China’s Second Continent. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I’m Michel Martin,…

  • Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century University of Virginia Press October 2013 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780813934884 Paper ISBN: 9780813934891 Ebook ISBN: 9780813934907 Colleen C. O’Brien, Associate Professor of English University of South Carolina, Upstate As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues…

  • “I don’t think we have any full-blooded Māori,” Dr. [Tīmoti] Kāretu said. “But it is not a problem. As long as you have a Māori (ancestor), you are Māori. It’s left to the individual to identify with their Māori or European.” K. C. Cole, “Chickasaw and Māori Celebrate Similarities, Language and Culture,” Indian Country Today…