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Identity
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada by Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley
Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada by Heribert Adam and Kogila MoodleyOn a spectrum of hostility towards migrants, South Africa ranks at the…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
The Beauty of Blackness
To say that Rachael Dolezal has made headlines would be an understatement. While Ms. Dolezal has represented herself as African American to her community for decades, she is actually white. …
The Right Coast
Video: Dolezal I identify as black « Hot Air
RD: I do take exception to that because it s a lot more complex than answering a question of are you black or white. I was actually identified when I…
ImmigrationProf Blog
LA Times forms venture with Jose Antonio Vargas
The Los Angeles Times today announced a venture with journalist Jose Antonio Vargas to establish #EmergingUS, a multimedia platform which will explore the evolving American identity in the 21st century. Vargas…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Aziz on Coercive Assimilationism
By John Kang
Sahar F. Aziz, Texas A & M Law, has uploaded "Coercive Assimilationism: The Perils of Muslim Women's Identity Performance in the Workplace." It's forthcoming in the Michigan J. of Race &…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Golden State Is Now….
By John Kang
....the easiest place for transgendered folks to amend their birth certificates: California's Assembly Bill 1121 went into full effect yesterday. The bill, authored by out lesbian Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, was signed into…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Human Rights Law and Personal Identity by Jill Marshall
Human Rights Law and Personal Identity by Jill Marshall, Routledge – 2014 – 272 pages Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights LawThis book explores the role human rights law plays…
PrawfsBlawg
Offensive?
Main Thursday, January 23, 2014Offensive?A random nomenclature question:Is it offensive to call someone "a Jew"simply in referring factually to that person's religious/ethnic background (in other words, not saying it with…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: The Accidental Native by J. L. Torres
The Accidental Native by J. L. TorresWhen Rennie's parents die in a freak accident, he does what they would have wanted and buries them in Puerto Rico, their homeland. There, he's…
ImmigrationProf Blog
‘What Kind of Asian Are You?’ Answered in Hilarious Video
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