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  • Making Race Count in the Census

    Making Race Count in the Census New York University King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South New York, New York 10012 Wednesday, 2014-09-17, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Are Hispanics becoming white? Are Latin@s a race? How can we account for race and ethnicity in ways that best represent our interests? Can…

  • Multiple (Eye)dentity Series: (1)ne Drop Rule w/ Yaba Blay

    Multiple (Eye)dentity Series: (1)ne Drop Rule w/ Yaba Blay New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square Sout Room 802 New York, New York 10012 Thursday, 2014-02-27, 17:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) The Multiple (Eye)dentity Series is comprised of films, performances and speakers that showcase the ways in which art and media are…

  • 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.

  • Barack Obama and the Contest for Identity through Self-Representation: HIST-UA 413

    Barack Obama and the Contest for Identity through Self-Representation: HIST-UA 413 New York University Spring 2013 Jeffrey Sammons, Professor of History This course will explore the life and career path of the nation’s first “black” president through a focus on his two autobiographies, which will be studied for their content, style, and grounding in the…

  • Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090)

    Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090) New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis: American Studies This course will survey the emergent field of  ‘critical mixed race studies’ with a particular emphasis on the black experience in the Americas. How have people of African descent been alternately excluded from and incorporated into discourses…

  • IRISH-GA 1085: Black Irish Writing

    IRISH-GA 1085: Black Irish Writing Gluckman Ireland House New York University Spring 2010 This course examines the textual force-fields of similarity and difference in the writing of racial and ethnic identities in the Atlantic World.  It begins by considering works of Irish writers who engaged with Atlantic slavery and the sympathetic and testamentary discourses within…

  • LATC-GA 2145 – Semester in Latin America: Brazilian Racial Democracy

    LATC-GA 2145 – Semester in Latin America: Brazilian Racial Democracy New York University Spring 2012 Sarah Sarzynski, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Racial democracy, or the myth of racial democracy, has been a dominant national narrative in Brazil throughout the twentieth century. Gilberto Freyre’s The Masters and the Slaves (1933) is…

  • Colloquium – Mónica Moreno Figueroa on “Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico”

    Colloquium – Mónica Moreno Figueroa on “Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico” Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, New York Monday, 2011-09-12, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University Discussant: Frances Negrón-Muntaner Hosted by the Center…

  • From the “half-breed” to the “tragic mulatto”: The race integration film in the fifties and the struggle for social equality

    From the “half-breed” to the “tragic mulatto”: The race integration film in the fifties and the struggle for social equality New York University May 2007 435 pages Publication Number: AAT 3269779 ISBN: 9780549099536 Ryan Daniel DeRosa, Assistant Professor of Film Studies Ohio University A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…