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  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

    Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Cambridge University Press January 2015 Paperback ISBN: 9780521154260 Edited by: Karim Murji, Senior Lecturer in Sociology The Open University, United Kingdom John Solomos, Professor of Sociology University of Warwick, United Kingdom How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades…

  • 394. Paper Session: New Issues in Race and Identity

    394. Paper Session: New Issues in Race and Identity Crossing Borders: 2015 Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, New York 2015-02-26 through 2015-03-01 Sunday, 2015-03-01, 10:15-11:45 EST (Local Time) Presider: Vilna Bashi Treitler, Baruch College, City University of New York Blacks, Latinos, Jews and Foreigners are Taking Over: How Innumeracy About…

  • Today, Asian and Latino Americans who are light-skinned and have high economic status, particularly those who have white partners, may also gain entry into the white race.

    Irish and Italian Americans came to be considered members of the white race as their assimilation provided them with the material resources that allowed them to move away from the menial labor that was seen as synonymous with being black. Occupational and class mobility along with the loss of ethnic identity allowed these groups to…

  • 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…

  • In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race

    In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race The Philadelphia Inquirer 2011-05-25 John Timpane, Inquirer Staff Writer President Obama’s one-day visit to Ireland was a masterly orchestration of three visuals – one imaginary, two very real. Imaginary visual: the apostrophe in O’Bama. “My name is Barack Obama,” he said in Dublin,…

  • True Blood: The Vampire as a Multiracial Critique on Post-Race Ideology

    True Blood: The Vampire as a Multiracial Critique on Post-Race Ideology Journal of Dracula Studies Number 12 (2010) 19 pages Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In the Western consciousness there has been a long tradition of the associations between race and evil.  According to Celia R.…

  • Multiracial Americans and Social Class: The Influence of Social Class on Racial Identity

    As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population. “Multiracial Americans and Social Class” is the first book on multiracial Americans to do so and fills a noticeable void in a growing market.

  • The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition)

    The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition) Prentice Hall 2001 525 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0130283231; ISBN-13:  9780130283238 Edited By: Joan Ferrante Northern Kentucky University Prince Brown, Jr. Northern Kentucky University For undergraduate courses in race and ethnic relations. This groundbreaking collection of classic and cutting edge sociological research gives…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking

    The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking State University of New York Press June 2004 263 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0-7914-6153-X; ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6153-2 Paperback ISBN-10: 0-7914-6154-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6154-9 Editor: Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director Mansfield Institute for Social Justice Roosevelt University A provocative analysis of current thought and discourse on multiracialism. This is…