The Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos [1882-1959] and the African American political thinker W.E.B. DuBois [1868-1963] are viewed as having developed conceptions of race and racial identity that are quintessentially Latin American and U.S....
Ancestry.com wants you to swab your cheek and send them a DNA sample and a check. In return, they promise to tell you who your remote ancestors were. Eminent literary scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., performs the same miracle on national...
The dominant racial ideology of colorblindness in the United States holds that the most effective anti-racist policy, and practice, is to ignore race. Issues continue to arise, however, that present a set of contradictions for colorblind ideology...