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  • Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity

    “Necessarily Black”is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the performance, embodiment, and nuances of racialized identities (blackened bodies) in empirical contexts.

  • The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje

    The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje Michigan State University Press 2013-11-01 310 pages 6 in x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9781611860863 eBook ISBN: 9781609173753 Pancho McFarland, Associate Professor of Sociology Chicago State University The population of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States is a diverse one, as reflected by age,…

  • Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

    Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas Michigan State University Press April 2012 344 pages 6 x 9, notes, references ISBN: 978-1-61186-040-5 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics University of South Florida Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies; Director of the Latin American Studies…

  • Interpreting the Census: The Elasticity of Whiteness and the Depoliticization of Race

    Interpreting the Census: The Elasticity of Whiteness and the Depoliticization of Race  2007 pages 155-170  Katya Gibel Mevorach, Associate Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College  From the anthology:  Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America Michigan State University Press 2007 280 pages 6 ” x 9 ” ISBN: 0-87013-669-0, 978-0-87013-669-6  Edited by:  Curtis Stokes, Professor…

  • The Myth of the Human Races

    The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate “races” of humanity exist.