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  • Of Matters Very Much Related: Trayvon Martin, “Multiracial” Identity, and the Perils of Being Black, Breathing, and Nearby

    Of Matters Very Much Related: Trayvon Martin, “Multiracial” Identity, and the Perils of Being Black, Breathing, and Nearby We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-03-19 Chauncey DeVega Scholars have long maintained that race is merely a social construct, not something fixed into our nature, yet this insight hasn’t made it any less of a factor in our…

  • A troubled experiment’s forgotten lesson in racial integration

    A troubled experiment’s forgotten lesson in racial integration Point Reyes Light Point Reyes Station, California 2012-03-15 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts The year 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of my Puerto Rican mother and Irish-Italian father’s unusual wedding. They met and married in an experimental community…

  • An Odd Sense of Color

    An Odd Sense of Color Toulouse Street: Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans 2012-03-24 Mark Folse OK, I just have to say it: it was Odd that three of the four panelists on the Tennessee Williams Festival panel New Orleans Free People of Color were white. The garrulous playwright John Guare tried to steal…

  • Driving FORCE Métis community significant economic resource

    Driving FORCE Métis community significant economic resource Winnipeg Free Press 2012-03-17 Barbara Bowes Although time has passed quickly, I’m sure you’ll recall that Manitoba recently celebrated Louis Riel Day. For most people, Louis Riel Day is simply another statutory holiday while for others, it is recognition that the Métis people were the driving force behind…

  • Racial Aura: Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art in a Biotechnological Age

    Racial Aura: Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art in a Biotechnological Age Literature and Medicine Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2007) Special Issue: Genomics in Literature, Visual Arts, and Culture pages 207-239 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0011 Alys Eve Weinbaum, Associate Professor of English University of Washington [T]he meaning of racial difference is itself being changed, as…

  • S.66, the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement bill in the 112th Congress — Reauthorizing an ineffective but socially dangerous pork-barrel waste of taxpayer dollars

    S.66, the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement bill in the 112th Congress — Reauthorizing an ineffective but socially dangerous pork-barrel waste of taxpayer dollars Hawaii Reporter 2011-03-07 Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D. S.66 is a bill in the 112th Congress entitled “The Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act,” introduced by Senator Dan Inouye on January 15,…

  • Are medical and nonmedical uses of large-scale genomic markers conflating genetics and ‘race’?

    Are medical and nonmedical uses of large-scale genomic markers conflating genetics and ‘race’? Nature Genetics Volume 36, Number 11s (2004) pages S43-S47 DOI: 10.1038/ng1439 Charles N. Rotimi, Director Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health “…with each birth and each death we alter the genetic attributes of human populations and drawing a line around…

  • Changing the paradigm from ‘race’ to human genome variation

    Changing the paradigm from ‘race’ to human genome variation Nature Genetics Volume 36, Number 11s (2004) pages S5-S7 DOI: 10.1038/ng1454 Charmaine D. M. Royal, Associate Research Professor Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy; Department of African and African American Studies Duke University Georgia M. Dunston, Founding Director, National Human Genome Center Howard University Knowledge from…

  • Grassroots Marketing in a Global Era: More Lessons from BiDil

    Grassroots Marketing in a Global Era: More Lessons from BiDil The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2011 pages 79–90 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00552.x Britt M. Rusert, External Humanities Fellow Center for the Humanities Temple University Charmaine D. M. Royal, Associate Research Professor Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy; Department of African…

  • Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African American Approaches to Race, Biomedicine, and Equality

    Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African American Approaches to Race, Biomedicine, and Equality The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2008 pages 537–545 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.302.x Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of…