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  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

    Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • Playing Games with Race

    NOTE: This article expands on a comment on Prof. Hortense Spillers’ article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too” published on The Feminist Wire on February 25, 2011. Omar Ricks would like to thank Prof. Spillers for inviting his contribution to The Feminist Wire.

  • Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too

    …We’ve been here before, and that is the disappointment. Reminded in the course of Saulny’s treatment that terms like “mulatto,” “once tinged with shame…is enjoying a comeback in some young circles” (1), one wonders what all the brouhaha about “post-racial” identity actually means, unless the new racialist reflexes are intended to be taken as parodic…

  • Among Blacks, Pride Is Mixed With Expectations for Obama

    Among Blacks, Pride Is Mixed With Expectations for Obama The New York Times 2013-01-20 Susan Saulny The Rev. Greggory L. Brown, a 59-year-old pastor of a small Lutheran church, committed himself to ministry and a life pursuing social justice on April 4, 1968 — the day the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain…

  • Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity

    Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity The New York Times 2012-05-22 Susan Saulny SALT LAKE CITY — When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking…

  • Race Remixed?

    The 2000 U.S. Census was the first in modern times allowing respondents to check off more than one box for the mandatory race question. In 2010, the number of people checking more than one box grew enormously.

  • Unless we solve those issues of inequality in other areas, interracial families are going to be questioned about why they’d cross that line…

    Jenifer L. Bratter, an associate sociology professor at Rice University who has studied multiracialism, said that as long as race continued to affect where people live, how much money they make and how they are treated, then multiracial families would be met with double-takes. “Unless we solve those issues of inequality in other areas, interracial…

  • In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger

    In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger The New York Times 2011-10-13 Susan Saulny TOMS RIVER, N.J. — “How come she’s so white and you’re so dark?” The question tore through Heather Greenwood as she was about to check out at a store here one afternoon this summer. Her brown hands were pushing the shopping…

  • Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT’s “Race Remixed”

    Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT’s “Race Remixed” Nuñez Daughter 2011-02-15 Kismet Nuñez A few weeks ago, @TrickAmaka sent me a New York Times piece by Susan Saulny on the high numbers of adults who identify as mixed-race as of the 2010 census.  In what was apparently the first in a series titled “Race Remixed,”…

  • Mixed-Race Students Wonder How Many Boxes to Check

    Mixed-Race Students Wonder How Many Boxes to Check The New York Times 2011-06-14 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg Multiracial students confess to spending sleepless nights worrying about how best to answer the race question on college applications. Some say they wonder whether their answers will be perceived as gamesmanship or a reflection of reality… Read the…