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  • 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…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition

    Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation

    Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation Center on Race & Social Problems School of Social Work The University of Pittsburgh 2010 29 pages Editors: Larry E. Davis, Dean and Donald M. Henderson Professor of Social Work and Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems University of Pittsburgh Ralph Bangs, Associate Director…

  • (Re)Claiming Rights?

    …Consider the irony of a man so long under fire for his origins, comes to Ireland to celebrate one strand of those origins. He is called black because in the United States, we are messed up about origins. Why not call him “Barack Obama, America’s 44th white president?” Or “America’s third Irish American president” (after…

  • 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.…

  • Diversity in ads not reflected in real life

    Diversity in ads not reflected in real life St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2005-02-21 Associated Press Advertisers are filling commercials with a mix of races and ethnicities, but critics contend such utopian situations rarely exist. Somewhere there’s an America that’s full of neighborhoods where black and white kids play softball together, where biracial families…

  • 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…