Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…