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  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race”?

    On April 20, 2015, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU hosted “What’s Radical About ‘Mixed Race’?”. Eschewing an apolitical “celebration” of mixed race, this panel examined the movement’s implications for multiracial coalition and the future of race in the US and Canada, asking: does the multiracial movement challenge—or actually reinforce—the logics of structural racism?

  • And you thought we had moved beyond all that: biological race returns to the social sciences

    And you thought we had moved beyond all that: biological race returns to the social sciences Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1676-1685 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.931992 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Recently, sociologists have argued in high-profile journals that racial categories…

  • “Everyone Knows It’s a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race

    “Everyone Knows It’s a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race Sociological Focus Volume 40, Issue 4, 2007 pages 436-454 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2007.10571319 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not…

  • Global Mixed Race

    Global Mixed Race New York University Press March 2014 357 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814770733 Paper ISBN: 9780814789155 Edited by: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Maynooth Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in…

  • Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective

    Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University A native New Yorker, Ann Morning is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about…

  • What’s Biology Got to Do with It? The Social Life of Genetics

    What’s Biology Got to Do with It? The Social Life of Genetics Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-11-16, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part One of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines What do we learn about ourselves through genetics and genealogy? How does DNA connect with what we know about our family’s ancestry…

  • Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines

    Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturdays, 2013-11-16, 2013-12-07 and 2014-01-25; 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Quantifying Bloodlines is a monthly reading group organized by anthropologist and oral historian Jennifer Scott.  Join others interested in exploring the relationship between biology and race, as we discuss three widely acclaimed books.…

  • Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans

    Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans New York University 2009-10-16 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology, discusses race-based medications.

  • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Being Different

    The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Being Different James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University 2011-09-15, 18:00-19:30 CDT Jenifer L. Bratter, Host & Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University New York University sociology professor Ann Morning, Ph.D., analyzes how scientists influence ideas about race through teachings and textbooks.…

  • New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population Past and Present

    Multiracial Americans have often been heralded as “new people” and in fact have been rediscovered as such more than once in the last century. Charles Chesnutt’s 1899 novel The House Behind the Cedars features a mulatto character who uses the phrase to describe himself and others like him; in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s,…