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Month: November 2015

  • Brown: The Last Discovery of America

    Brown: The Last Discovery of America Penguin Books 2012 256 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142000793 eBook ISBN: 9781101161500 Richard Rodriguez In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the…

  • Postracial Mestizaje: Richard Rodriguez’s Racial Imagination in an America Where Everyone Is Beginning to Melt

    Postracial Mestizaje: Richard Rodriguez’s Racial Imagination in an America Where Everyone Is Beginning to Melt American Studies Volume 54, Number 1, 2015 pages 89-113 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2015.0007 Lee Bebout, Associate Professor of English Arizona State University And it seemed to me that the larger questions about America that the color raised is the fact that we…

  • The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan

    Isamu was a boy of the East and the West. Born in the United States to a Japanese father and Scotch-Irish American mother, Isamu grew up in Japan. From his earliest years he felt the tug of his biracial heritage, never quite fitting in or thinking he belonged. Pleasure came, however, from the natural world.…

  • White supremacy remains intact despite the increase in interracial relationships

    It’s been a strange tale of race relations of late. On the one hand, research indicates that one in ten relationships are between people from different ethnic backgrounds. Yet on the other hand, the effects of institutional racism are as potent ever.

  • The Myth of the White Minority

    The Myth of the White Minority Critical Philosophy of Race Volume 3, Issue 2, 2015 pages 305-323 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I…

  • Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription

    Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription Lexington Books May 2012 142 pages Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-7190-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-9057-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-7191-2 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right…

  • Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black

    Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black El País Madrid, Spain 2015-11-17 Marina Rossi São Paulo, Brazil English version by Martin Delfín. Participants in the “Curly Hair Pride March,” which was held in July in São Paulo. / CORDON PRESS Sociologists say changes in attitudes have made people more open…

  • Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America

    First detailed study of “literary race” in eighteenth-century America

  • THINK TANK; Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love . . . and Racism

    THINK TANK; Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love . . . and Racism The New York Times 2004-04-17 Emily Eakin The word miscegenation entered America’s bitter racial politics and the national lexicon by way of an ambitious hoax. On Christmas Day in 1863, an anonymous 72-page pamphlet appeared on newsstands around New York City. Titled…

  • An African King in Bolivia

    An African King in Bolivia The New York Times 2015-11-17 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist; Lens Blog Co-Editor King Don Julio Pinedo being helped by his son, Rolando Pinedo, the prince, into a royal cloak. Queen Angelica oversees the details of her husband’s royal dress. Don Julio is shy and does not feel comfortable dressing…