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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Missed Opportunities and the Problem of Mohawk Chief John Norton’s Cherokee Ancestry Ethnohistory Volume 59, Number 2 (Spring 2012) pages 261-291 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1536885 Carl Benn, Professor of History Ryerson University John Norton (1770–1831?) was one of the most important Iroquois leaders in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the author of a thousand-page…
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Ethnicity and Stroke: Beware of the Fallacies Stroke Volume 31, Issue 5 (May 2000) pages 1013-1015 DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.31.5.1013 Osvaldo Fustinoni, MD Departments of Neurology University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina José Biller, MD, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery Loyola University, Chicago The role of ethnicity in stroke has been the subject of a…
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The Beginning and End of Nella Larsen’s Passing The Common Room: The Knox College Online Journal of Literary Criticism Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2005) Sarah Magin Nella Larsen’s novel Passing is centered on the character Clare Kendry, a light-skinned, biracial woman living as a white woman. She has married a white man who knows…
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Nella Larsen’s ‘Passing’ and the Fading Subject African American Review Volume 32, Issue 3 (Fall 1998) pages 373-386 Neil Sullivan . . . Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life, that she had not been born a Negro. For the first time she suffered and rebelled because she was unable to disregard…
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Against racial medicine Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 481-493 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020189 Joseph L. Graves Jr., Dean of University Studies; Professor of Biological Sciences North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro Michael R. Rose, Director of the University of California Network for Experimental Research on…
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Blood and stories: how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 303-333 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020064 Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and Women’s Studies Duke University In 2003 Howard University announced its intention to create a databank of the DNA of…
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Finding a Match, and a Mission: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer The New York Times 2012-05-11 Donald G. McNeil, Jr. A month after his 2009 graduation from Yale Law School, Seun Adebiyi learned he had not one but two lethal blood cancers and began an odyssey to find a bone-marrow donor. Mr. Adebiyi, 28, who came…
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Personalized pharmacogenomics aims to use individual genotypes to direct medical treatment. Unfortunately, the loci relevant for the pharmacokinetics and especially the pharmacodynamics of most drugs are still unknown.
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Nella Larsen’s Passing: More than Skin Deep McNair Scholars Research Journal Volume 15 pages 71-83 June 2011 Sarah Hicks California State University, Long Beach Nella Larsen’s novella Passing focuses on Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry-Bellew, two female Mulatto characters who pass into white communities; however, two white male minor characters, Hugh Wentworth and John “Jack”…