Category: Articles

  • Can the “one-drop rule” tell us anything about racial discrimination? New evidence from the multiple race question on the 2000 Census Labour Economics Volume 16, Issue 4 (August 2009) pages 451-460 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.01.003 Robert W. Fairlie, Professor of Economics University of California, Santa Cruz The inclusion of multiple race information for the first time in…

  • Turkish descendants of African slaves begin to discover their identity The National Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2012-09-01 Piotr Zalewski No one knows how many Afro-Turks there are but, in a country that’s beginning to acknowledge its great diversity, they’re beginning to unearth their forgotten history. In 1961, Ertekin Azerturk, a Turkish businessman from Istanbul,…

  • Book Review: Race in a Bottle GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 26 Issue 1, March 2013 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University In Race in a Bottle, Jonathan Kahn tracks the contentious history of BiDil, the first drug targeted specifically to African…

  • Genetic Background of Patients from a University Medical Center in Manhattan: Implications for Personalized Medicine PLoS ONE: A peer-reviewed, open access journal Volume 6, Number 5 (2011-05-04) 11 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019166 Bamidele O. Tayo Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois Marie Teil Charles R. Bronfman Institute…

  • The Privilege of Denial all things beautiful 2012-09-19 Alyssa Bacon-Liu I remember doing what’s called a Privilege Walk during my freshman year of college. There was a group of us and we stood in a line and we were given instructions. You had to take steps forward or steps back depending on how you answered…

  • DNA unlocks family secrets of the Chinese juggler, the enigmatic sea-captain and more The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2013-03-23 Carolyn Abraham, Special to The Globe and Mail The birth of my first child made me see the past through a new lens: how it’s never lost, not completely; we carry it with us, in…

  • How Do Whites Perceive Biracial People? Daily Observations: Your source for the latest psychological research Association for Psychological Science 2011-11-10 In case you missed it, the cameras were rolling at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Watch Sabrica Barnett from The City University of New York present her poster research on “Not Fully…

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard’s One Drop Mother Jones 2007-11-09 Debra J. Dickerson Suddenly, white people are fascinated by race. Good for them. Good for all of us? If you haven’t read Bliss Broyard’s One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets, you must. No matter how well…

  • This is the first in a series of interviews with scholars, writers, activists and others involved with the topic of multiracilism.

  • This is a Time for Hope and Change Indiana Law Journal Volume 87, Issue 1 (2012) Article 23 pages 431-444 Kevin D. Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law I have agreed to comment on the paper delivered by Professors Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Mario Barnes at a conference titled…