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  • Contrary to belief that race mixture leads to deterioration, an actual superiority in some instances may characterize the half-caste population.

    One of the most fruitful sources of genetic variation in man is race mixture. Although the term is something of a misnomer, its usage is firmly established. Actually anything from the latest international marriage of an American heiress with a British peer to the miscegenation of Australian aborigines with Europeans is called race mixture. In…

  • Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World

    Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World Social History of Medicine Volume 26, Issue 3 (August 2013) pages 364-382 DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkt011 Londa Schiebinger, The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science Stanford University This article examines medical experimentation with humans in the Atlantic world. Physicians in this period tended to use bodies…

  • imagining hybrid cities

    imagining hybrid cities The State 2013-07-25 Tiana Reid I started this series on crossing and mixing by considering temporality and its hold on how we imagine hybridity. The recent discourse centered on the unshakable ‘browning’ or ‘beiging’ of mostly urban populations in the decades to come offers itself up through the prevailing ‘hybrid futures’ narrative.…

  • Obama’s “Double Consciousness” On Race

    Obama’s “Double Consciousness” On Race The New Yorker 2013-07-26 Jonathan Alter, Author, Reporter, Columnist, TV Analyst, Lecturer More than a century ago, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote of the “double consciousness” of the black man: “One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings.” President Barack Obama’s extemporaneous…

  • White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera

    White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-07-25 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York A strange meme circulates, apparently fueled by Geraldo Rivera’s White Hispanic, Yellow Journalism. It goes like this: George Zimmerman is not really white, he’s Hispanic, and so the…

  • Interracial Families in 18th-Century Mexico

    Interracial Families in 18th-Century Mexico The Root 2013-07-23 Unknown artist working in New Spain (Mexico), De español y negra mulata, oil on canvas, 36 by 48 cm (Museo de America, Madrid) Image of the Week: A painting captures the multiethnic population in New Spain, now Mexico. One of the most typical, revealing products of colonial…

  • Multiracial Child Resource Book: Living Complex Realities

    Published in 2003, this groundbreaking, 288-page volume edited by Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. and Matt Kelley, offers 35 chapters to assist the people who work with children to serve multiracial youth with compassion and competence.

  • Taking race out of the equation in measuring women’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures

    Taking race out of the equation in measuring women’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures UCLA Newsroom University of California, Los Angeles 2012-10-18 Enrique Rivero For women of mixed racial or ethnic backgrounds, a new method for measuring bone health may improve the odds of correctly diagnosing their risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures, according to…

  • SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics

    SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Fall 2013 Rutledge M. Dennis, Professor of Sociology This course examines the issues, individuals, and groups central to the intersectionality of race, culture, and politics in American life. We will begin with the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case which solidified and legitimized…

  • At the very outset we must face three possible alternatives as we consider the concept of race:

    At the very outset we must face three possible alternatives as we consider the concept of race: 1) there is such a thing as race  in mankind; 2) there is not such a thing as race in mankind; 3) even if race in mankind exists, it can have no significance save as people think of…