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  • Quiet as its Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities

    This conference responds to renewed interest in passing that derives from the popularity of genetic genealogy tests, sensational cases of racial fraud (i.e., Rachel Dolezal), the idea of “realness” appropriated from ball culture, racial ambiguity in a surveillance state, public fascination with celebrities like Meghan Markle, and the construction (and manipulation) of online identities (i.e.,…

  • MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege

    MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege Mississippi State University 2016-07-01 Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two Mississippi State faculty members helped lead a literary effort examining the basis and scope of racial identity as an American social structure. Stephen Middleton, professor of history and director for African American Studies at MSU, along with associate…

  • The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity

    A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege

  • The complicity cost of racial inclusion

    The complicity cost of racial inclusion Al Jazeera America 2014-08-24 Julia Carrie Wong Oakland, California When Brook Soso, a new Asian-American character in the second season of “Orange Is the New Black,” arrives at the federal prison in Litchfield, New York, a fellow inmate named Lorna Morello provides her with a toothbrush and bar of…

  • Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union

    Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union University Press of Mississippi 2014-07-17 432 pages 6 X 9 inches 3 B&W photographs Hardcover ISBN: 9781628460216 Edited by: G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer of African American History Monmouth University, West Long…

  • Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities

    Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities Still Furious and Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? 2013-04-03 Robert Reece Department of Sociology Duke University Last week, an Asian-American fraternity at the University of California Irvine posted a parody of a music video featuring one of their members in blackface. Blackface has become the go-to…

  • Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

    Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society Indiana University Press 2012-08-16 336 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00629-5 john a. powell, Professor of Law; Director Haas Diversity Research Center University of California, Berkeley Foreword by: David R. Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Professor of History and African American…

  • Racial Classification and History

    Racial Classification and History Routledge 1997-02-01 376 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8153-2602-1 Edited by E. Nathaniel Gates (1955-2006) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University Explores the concept of “race” The term “race,” which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning.…

  • How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon

    How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon Verso Books October 2008 Hardback, 240 pages Paperback, 272 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781844672752 Paperback ISBN: 9781844674343 David R. Roediger, Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History University of Kansas An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by…

  • Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past

    Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past University of California Press November 2003 332 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520240704 David R. Roediger, Babcock Professor of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign David R. Roediger’s powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a “still white” nation.…