Author: Steven

  • Funding Race as Biology: The Relevance of “Race” in Medical Research Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Volume 12, Issue 2 (Spring 2011) pages 571-618 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Note from Steven F.…

  • From Bang to Whimper: A Heart Drug’s Story The New York Times 2012-12-24 Abigail Zuger, M.D. Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age. Columbia University Press, December 2012, 336 pages. On June 23, 2005, American medicine managed to take a small step forward and a…

  • Why More Races Could Appear on the 2020 Census PolicyMic 2013-01-07 Justine Gonzalez The U.S. Census is re-evaluating how they measure race for the 2020 Census. Our country is rapidly diversifying, both culturally and racially, which makes the Census’ job that much more critical and complicated. As the 2010 Census has shown, Latinos, who often…

  • Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story University of Minnesota Press 2010 272 pages 23 b&w plates, 6 x 9 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6678-2 George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer,…

  • Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico UCLA Today Faculty and Staff News 2010-12-06 Letisia Marquez Growing up in a predominantly white Los Angeles County suburb, Robert Chao Romero, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, learned to hide his Chinese background.   The son of a Chinese…

  • “Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I) Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-01-03 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles I’m a “Chino-Chicano.” I was born in East Los Angeles and raised in the small town of Hacienda…

  • Don’t consign Mary Seacole to history, Michael Gove is urged The Independent London, England 2013-01-04 Kevin Rawlinson Petition launched to prevent Crimean War nurse being written out of school textbooks Leading black Britons have united to urge the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to abandons his plan to remove the country’s most celebrated black historical figure…

  • Catching Up With Black in America’s Soledad O’Brien Clutch Magazine 2012-12-14 Zettler Clay A while ago, I took my little cousins to Toys “R” Us. Three of them. 8 years old, 6 years old, 4 years old. It was going smoothly enough until we came across a row of dolls. There were two on the…

  • Perhaps growing up in Vancouver has changed the way I approach the question, “But where are you really from?” There is no doubt that my geographical position in this country changes the climate in which that question is asked.