Tag: Orville Lee

  • Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities – LCST 2007 A Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts Spring 2009 Orville Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology Racial passing is a ubiquitous and contentious feature of social and cultural life in the United States. Taking “passing” as an object of analysis, this…

  • What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the social sciences today, arguing that race is no more than…