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  • White Latino Racism on the Rise: It’s Time for a Serious Conversation on Euro-Diasporic Whiteness

    White Latino Racism on the Rise: It’s Time for a Serious Conversation on Euro-Diasporic Whiteness Latino Rebels 2015-12-21 Wiliam Garcia A common misconnection that exists today rests on the notion that there are no racial hierarchies in Latin American countries or within the Latino communities in the United States. In other words, Latino (or Hispanic)…

  • “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”: Troubling the Visual Optics of Race

    “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”: Troubling the Visual Optics of Race Flow Volume 17, Issue 9 (2013-03-28) Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies; Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies; Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign On February 26, 2013, the one year anniversary of…

  • Whiteness, History, and Comments about George Zimmerman

    Whiteness, History, and Comments about George Zimmerman Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2013-07-17 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Department of History University of Houston Events and things in history frequently involve what I call the “realms of illogic.” It’s not gonna make sense. “Race” is one of these. This posting is an attempt to address how people are…

  • We Should all Be Terrified

    We Should all Be Terrified brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2013-07-14 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Today, do not speak to me of peace. Do not speak to me of reconciliation or “turn the other cheek.” Today we must confess. We must confess to what our nation was and…

  • Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask.

    Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask. The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-08-01 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington, Seattle It’s been nearly two weeks since the George Zimmerman verdict was handed down, and the conversations in my Facebook feed have shifted from…

  • White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera

    White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-07-25 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York A strange meme circulates, apparently fueled by Geraldo Rivera’s White Hispanic, Yellow Journalism. It goes like this: George Zimmerman is not really white, he’s Hispanic, and so the…

  • Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology

    Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology Anthropology News American Anthropological Association 2013-07-19 Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology City University of New York (and President of the American Anthropological Association) On February 26, 2012, 28-year-old George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old African American teenager who, after buying Skittles and iced tea at the local…

  • Trayvon Martin and Making Whiteness Visible

    If there’s one good thing to come out of the George Zimmerman verdict, it’s the acknowledgement of white privilege

  • Zimmerman, Whiteness and Latinos

    Zimmerman, Whiteness and Latinos ABC News/Univision 2013-07-18 Leticia Alvarado, Assistant Professor of American Studies Brown University Saturday night bore a particularly saturated darkness, tinged by the news of George Zimmerman’s acquittal of all charges in connection to the death of not-yet-man-not-quite-child Trayvon Martin. A range of single-word status updates overtook my various social media feeds…

  • Gladys Zimmerman, Mother Of George Zimmerman, Says Her Family Is ‘Proudly Afro-Peruvian,’ But Do His Black Roots Matter In Trayvon Martin Case?

    Gladys Zimmerman, Mother Of George Zimmerman, Says Her Family Is ‘Proudly Afro-Peruvian,’ But Do His Black Roots Matter In Trayvon Martin Case? Latin Times New York, New York 2013-07-15 David Iaconangelo As protests mount against the verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, the question of how the public ought to see Zimmerman’s racial background…