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Month: August 2016

  • Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic

    Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period.

  • The Heart of Whiteness: Interracial Marriage and White Masculinity in American Fiction, 1830-1905

    The Heart of Whiteness: Interracial Marriage and White Masculinity in American Fiction, 1830-1905 Washington University in St. Louis August 2015 201 pages Lauren M. W. Barbeau A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Building on…

  • JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama’s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race

    JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama’s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race The Daily Mail 2016-07-19 Justin Webb Like many of the most persuasive public speakers, Barack Obama has always had a neat line in self-deprecation. Shortly before being elected President in 2008 he told…

  • NASA Facility Dedicated to Mathematician Katherine Johnson

    NASA Facility Dedicated to Mathematician Katherine Johnson Space.com 2016-05-05 Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer Katherine Johnson, pictured here at NASA’s Langley Research Center, where she worked as a “computer” and mathematician from 1953 to 1986. Langley dedicated a computing facility to Johnson in a ceremony today (May 5). Credit: NASA NASA honored 97-year-old mathematician Katherine Johnson…

  • Japan’s Under-Researched Visible Minorities: Applying Critical Race Theory to Racialization Dynamics in a Non-White Society

    Japan’s Under-Researched Visible Minorities: Applying Critical Race Theory to Racialization Dynamics in a Non-White Society Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism (Symposium Edition) (2015) pages 695-723 Debito Arudou Critical Race Theory (CRT), an analytical framework grounded in American legal academia, uncovers power relationships between a racialized enfranchised…

  • Between places and spaces

    Between places and spaces The McGill Daily Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2016-03-21 Francesca Humi Articulating my identity as a mixed-race woman “Who are you?” I am a woman of colour. No, I’m a mixed-race woman of colour. My identity is constantly gendered and racialized. While I have come to be very comfortable with my gender identity…

  • Barack Obama and Immigrant Blackness: A Catalyst for Structural Change

    Barack Obama and Immigrant Blackness: A Catalyst for Structural Change The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations: Annual Review Volume 12 (2012) pages 33-42 Kirin Wachter-Grene, Acting Instructor of Literature New York University This essay builds upon an argument I make in my article “Beyond the Binary: Obama’s Hybridity and Post-Racialization” to…

  • Racialized Lives: Ethnic Mixing and Mixed Ethnicity in Britain

    Racialized Lives: Ethnic Mixing and Mixed Ethnicity in Britain New Left Project 2015-03-06 Karis Campion, Doctoral Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology University of Manchester Racialization has had a deeply personal impact on the lives of people in Britain, but history shows us it can be challenged. In Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider,…

  • Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality

    Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality Westview Press 2014-03-11 552 pages Print ISBN: 9780813349305 Ebook ISBN: 9780813349312 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Despite radical changes over the last century, race remains a central organizing principle in U.S. society, a key arena of inequality, and the…

  • The Misuse of Race in Medical Diagnosis

    The Misuse of Race in Medical Diagnosis Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics May 2004, Volume 113 / Issue 5 Richard S. Garcia I am a 39-year-old Hispanic male born in Stockton, Calif, to a mother who—after many years of unwise eating—has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and to a father I…