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  • Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges?

    Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-30 Alex P. Kellogg, Special to CNN Among university departments that study African-American history, Latin American or Chicano cultures and all varieties of ethnicities and nationalities, there’s a relatively obscure field of academic inquiry: whiteness…

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

    “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Is the Future Mestizo and Mulatto? A Theological-Sociological Investigation into the Racial and Ethnic Future of the Human Person within the U.S.

    Is the Future Mestizo and Mulatto? A Theological-Sociological Investigation into the Racial and Ethnic Future of the Human Person within the U.S. Zygon Center for Religion and Science Third Annual Student Symposium on Science and Spirituality Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Illinois 2011-03-25 13 pages Kevin Patrick Considine Loyola University, Chicago My study is a…

  • He’s White, Unfortunately

    Obama’s ascent to the (still) White House is part and parcel of forty years of transition from the Jim Crow order to a new racial regime. Obama represents the sedimentation of a higher stage of the “new racism,” one described by Dylan E. Rodríguez as a “multiracial white supremacy.” In the new phase of racial…

  • Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue

    Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 6 (July 2009) Special Issue: Making Latino/a Identities in Contemporary America pages 1071-1082 DOI: 10.1080/01419870902883536 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Christina A. Sue commented on…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters

    Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation

    The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation The Black Scholar 2010-03-22 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IN “THE NEW NADIR: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation,” using the Marxist method of historical materialism analyze the period after…

  • The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America (Lecture by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva)

    The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America (Lecture by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Tuesday, 2010-10-12, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University A series of public programs at the University of…

  • Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE

    Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Tuesday evenings, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z through November; 00:00Z on Wednesday after November 9). 2010-09-14 through 2010-12-07 Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus A series of public programs at the University of Rhode Island presented by the URI Honors Program Join us! The public is invited…

  • More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order by G. Reginald Daniel [Book Review: Bonilla-Silva]

    More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order by G. Reginald Daniel [Book Review: Bonilla-Silva] Social Forces Volume 81, Number 2 (December 2002) pages 674-676 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Most books on multiracial matters are as fluffy as a goose-down pillow. These books are often edited collections in which personal…