Day: August 11, 2014

  • Northern Ireland’s most (un)wanted Media Diversified 2014-07-28 Jayne Olorunda Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast has had many songs written about it. The lyrics of one Belfast song resonates in my ear as I think of the reputation the city now has. The lyrics of the song always stood out to me, but now they are more…

  • Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe Language Sciences Available online: 2014-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2014.07.011 Martina Zimmermann Institute of Multilingualism University of Fribourg, University of Teacher Education, Fribourg, Switzerland Carsten Levisen Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University, Denmark þórhalla Guðmundsdóttir Beck University of Iceland, Háskóli…

  • Modern Diversity May Prompt US Census Bureau to Seek Better Classification of Hispanics’ Race Latin Post 2014-07-29 Nicole Akoukou Thompson Modernizing data and research methods, as well as offering clear depictions of diversity in the nation’s population, are prominent objectives of the United States Census Bureau. However, the government agency has often missed its mark.…

  • Skewing the Data: Mixed-Race Identity & the Problem of Counting for Race Lucia Lorenzi: the body politic: musings and meanderings 2014-04-13 Lucia Lorenzi University of British Columbia A few weeks ago, I attended a panel hosted by the Institute for Gender, Race, and Sexuality at the University of British Columbia, entitled “CWILA and the Problem…