Month: October 2015

  • Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas Demographic Research Volume 31 Article 24 (2014-09-19) pages 735-756 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.24 Stanley Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Background: Racial inequality in the U.S. is typically…

  • But the longer I spent at that university, the more of them I ran into. People who confused having an “interest” in Indigenous culture with “going full redface.” We organized a student pow-wow and some of the attendees had clearly studied at the Grey Owl School of Indian fakery. They showed up with feathers in…

  • Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 14, Number 3, October 2015 pages 35-65 Karl Offen, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio In 1764, Spanish colonel Luis Diez Navarro mapped the racially diverse British settlement at Black River on what is today the coast of northeastern Honduras.…

  • The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African-Americans American Journal of Sociology Volume 121, Number 2 (September 2015) pages 396-444 DOI: 10.1086/682162 Ellis P. Monk Jr., Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Chicago In this study, the author uses a nationally representative survey to examine the relationship(s) between skin tone,…

  • Light in the Shadows: Staying at the Table When the Conversation about Race Gets Hard World Trust Films 2010 DVD, 00:45:00 United States Shakti Butler, Director and Producer Light in the Shadows: Staying at the Table When the Conversation about Race Gets Hard records a frank dialogue among two white women and several women of…

  • The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality Sociology Compass Volume 1, Issue 1 (September 2007) pages 237-254 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00006.x Margaret Hunter, Mary S. Metz Professorship for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching Professor of Sociology Mills College, Oakland, California Colorism is a persistent problem for people of color in the USA. Colorism, or…

  • In fact, there’s no evidence that Native Americans are more biologically susceptible to substance use disorders than any other group, says Joseph Gone, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. American Indians don’t metabolize or react to alcohol differently than whites do, and they don’t have higher prevalence of any known risk genes.…

  • The Invisible Asian The New York Times 2015-10-07 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia David Haekwon Kim, Associate Professor of Philosophy University of San Francisco This is the latest in a series of interviews about philosophy of race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with David Haekwon Kim, an…

  • DNA from 4,500-year-old Ethiopian reveals surprise about ancestry of Africans The Los Angeles Times 2015-10-08 Karen Kaplan, Science & Medicine Editor DNA from a man who lived in Ethiopia about 4,500 years ago is prompting scientists to rethink the history of human migration in Africa. Until now, the conventional wisdom had been that the first…

  • Like many TCKs [third culture kids] and persons of mixed ancestry, I have searched all my life for “home”. In late 2012 I relocated to the Los Angeles area after more than two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. L.A.’s a good place for in-between-ers like me. In this sprawling…