Day: December 23, 2015

  • Why Your Race Isn’t Genetic Pacific Standard 2014-05-30 Michael White, Assistant Professor of Genetics Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri DNA doesn’t determine race. Society does. If you glanced around the room at a conference of geneticists, it would be easy to guess where in the world all the attendees’ ancestors came from.…

  • Can we choose our racial identities? Should we? Quartz 2015-12-18 Marcie Bianco One human race, divided. (Fanqiao Wang) Can we choose our racial identities? Should we? In 2015, race as an identity has seemed more malleable than ever. As Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown, wrote in this week’s New York Times Magazine, Americans will…

  • Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico by Ileana Rodríguez-Silva (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 655-657 Isar Godreau, Researcher Interdisciplinary Research Institute University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico (London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,…

  • The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census Social Science History Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 485-519 Rebecca Jean Emigh, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Dylan Riley, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Patricia Ahmed South Dakota State University This paper examines the demographic categories in…