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  • Genetic Determinism, Technology Optimism, and Race

    We begin with a typology of Americans’ understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has two dimensions: one running from genetic determinism to social construction, and the other from technology optimism to technology pessimism.

  • Raceless Like Me: Students at Harvard Navigate their Way Beyond the Boundaries of Race

    Raceless Like Me: Students at Harvard Navigate their Way Beyond the Boundaries of Race The Harvard Crimson Harvard University 2011-10-13 Zoe A. Y. Weinberg, Crimson Staff Writer One day last fall, Paula M. Maouyo ’14 sat in front of her laptop in Matthews trying to think of a topic for her Expos paper about racial…

  • Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?

    Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? The New York Times 2013-07-06 Shaila Dewan, Economics Reporter gray318 As a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference…

  • So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity

    So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity Hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2013-04-05 through 2013-04-06 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its fifth annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Saturday, April 6, 2013…

  • Meet Your Cousin, the First Lady: A Family Story, Long Hidden

    Meet Your Cousin, the First Lady: A Family Story, Long Hidden The New York Times 2012-06-16 Rachel L. Swarns This article is adapted from “American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama” by Rachel L. Swarns, to be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on Tuesday. REX,…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…

  • Race and Class in Political Science

    Race and Class in Political Science Michigan Journal of Race and Law Volume 11, Issue 1 (Fall 2005) pages 99-114 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University As a discipline, political science tends to have a split personality on the issue of whether…

  • Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race

    Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race Studies in American Political Development Volume 22, Issue 1 (March 2008) pages 59-96 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X08000047 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Brenna Marea Powell, Associate Director…

  • Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality

    Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality In Suzanne Mettler, Joe Soss, and Jacob Hacker (eds.). Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality Russell Sage Foundation November 2007 41 pages Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard…

  • “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism

    “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University February 2010 Working Paper 68 pages Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor The Woodrow Wilson Department of…