Month: April 2016

  • The problem for poor, white kids is that a part of their culture has been destroyed The Guardian 2016-04-04 Paul Mason Our culture was the one celebrated in Ken Loach movies … a scene from the film Kes. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock Thatcherism didn’t just crush the unions, it crushed a story – as the report that…

  • For the vast majority of human existence we did without the idea of race. Since its inception a mere few hundred years ago, and despite the voluminous documentation of the problems associated with living within the racial worldview, we have come to act as if race is something we cannot live without. “The Arc of…

  • Of association, assimilation and mixed-race marriages Oman Daily Observer 2016-03-21 Ali Ahmed Al Riyami It is said that ‘love knows no bounds’ and, as such, when two people meet and fall in love there is little that can stop there union and all that it entails; especially the expected outcome, which is in fact the…

  • Hapas Soon to Be the Majority in the Japanese American Community AsAmNews: Where the conversation about Asian America Begins 2016-04-16 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent The future is now in the Japanese American community. By 2020, just four years away, demographers says the majority of Japanese Americans will be multiracial/multiethnic. A new exhibition now at…

  • How Soccer Helped Brazil Embrace Its Racial Diversity Zócalo Public Square KCRW Santa Monica, California 2016-04-06 Joshua Nadel, Associate Professor of History North Carolina Central University Brazil—as two recent book titles point out, and almost any kid kicking a ball anywhere in the world can tell you—is the country of soccer. While the modern sport’s…

  • A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands

  • A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico University of Oklahoma Press 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806148649 Stephanie Lewthwaite, Lecturer in American History, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region…

  • Exploring Whiteness in a Black-Indian Village on Mexico’s Costa Chica The Latin American Diaries Institute of Latin American Studies 2015-06-29 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton During the early colonial period, Mexico had one of the largest African slave populations in Latin America. Today, there are numerous historically black communities…

  • Revealing the Race-Based Realities of Workforce Exclusion NACLA Report on the Americas Volume 47, Number 4 (Winter 2014) pages 26-29 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Advocates in the fight against poverty in Latin America often center class above race as the factor that most determines Afro-descendants’ life-chances. But a growing movement is…

  • The Race of a Criminal Record: How Incarceration Colors Racial Perception Social Problems Volume 57, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 92-113 DOI: 10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.92 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine In the United States, racial disparities in incarceration and their consequences are widely…