Month: November 2015

  • Probing Change in Racial Self-identification: A Focus on Children of Immigrants Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2015-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215611685 Thomas J. Mowen, Assistant Professor Department of Criminal Justice University of Wyoming Richard Stansfield, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Camden Recent…

  • Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba Duke University Press 2015 376 pages 27 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5918-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5937-1 Jalane D. Schmidt, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban…

  • Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming “Mixedness” For Harriet 2014-10-30 Tamara Williams I remember being in 7th grade, and writing on the back of my folder all the things I was told by an older cousin I was “mixed” with. I had a desire to claim all I thought I was, but what was more interesting is…

  • “I’m A Biracial Person Who…” | A Snapchat Story Chescaleigh 2015-10-26 Franchesca Ramsey

  • Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask Pew Research Center 2015-11-06 Eileen Patten, Research Analyst In 2014, as Pew Research Center prepared to conduct the first major study of the views of multiracial Americans—a group that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is poised to triple by 2060—we faced a fundamental and unavoidable methodological…

  • What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents’ own stories as well as her own. She pieces together her family history and the story of…

  • “Being mixed race and being American is really weird because Americans, and I say this as an American, they like to do this thing where they put literally everyone into a box. We see it on the Census, we see it in schools, standardized testing, anything you could possibly label, Americans like to label. Mixed…

  • Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940 Alabama Pioneers 2015-11-06 Donna R. Causey THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama are a group of people of mixed racial blood known in that section as Indian Cajans. Living…

  • Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color American Behavioral Scientist Published online before print 2015-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613395 Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Maria Abascal Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond the dimensions of…

  • I See Color and You Should Too Alex Barnett: Stand-up Comedian and Multiracial Family Man 2015-10-13 Alex Barnett As a comic and member of a multiracial family, I deal frequently with issues of race in my act and debunk myths. For example, it is not true that all biracial toddlers can move objects with their…