Category: Articles

  • Negroes: Miscegenation Time Magazine 1923-07-23 Protests of Negro organizations from many parts of the country, descending about the ears of a Senator, caused him to change his mind. Senator [Arthur] Capper of Kansas is leader of the farm bloc and of the “marriage bloc”—if such a thing there is. In the last Congress he brought…

  • Are we all ‘coloured’? News 24 (South Africa) 2011-03-09 Max Du Preez We really need to find new terminology for the different population groups in South Africa, especially now that we’re moving back into a political culture of obsession with race. Problem One: if “coloured” means people of mixed blood, then the vast majority of…

  • Birthers’ shameful racist roots The Boston Globe 2011-05-02 James Carroll It was not up to President Obama to label the birther movement as racist in his extraordinary address on the subject last week, but plenty of commentary has done it for him. There can be no doubt that the lurid contempt shown to the president…

  • Breaking the Black-White Binary Fathom: the source for online learning Columbia University 2002 Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University Where do Asians fall in the American construct of race? According to Gary Okihiro, the director of Columbia University’s Center for Race and Ethnicity, the position of Asians has had to be…

  • Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S. About.com: Race Relations 2011-04-09 Nadra Kareem Nittle When Barack Obama set his sights on the presidency, newspapers suddenly began devoting a lot more ink to the multiracial identity. Media outlets from Time Magazine and the New York Times to the British-based Guardian and BBC News pondered the…

  • Linda Martín-Alcoff: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self [Review] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006-06-22 Linda Martín-Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, Oxford University Press, 2006, 326pp., ISBN 0195137353. Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco Linda Martín Alcoff’s book, Visible Identities, offers a conception of social identities…

  • Editorial: Implications of racial distinctions for body composition and its diagnostic assessment American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Volume 71, Number 6 (June 2000) pages 1387-1389 Print ISSN: 0002-9165; Online ISSN: 1938-3207 Noel W. Solomons, Scientific Director and co-Founder Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) Shiriki Kumanyika, Professor of Epidemiology University of…

  • Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional study BMC Public Health Volume 2, Number 1 (2002-01-16) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-2-1 5 pages Sandra C. Fuchs Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Sylvia M. Guimarães Department of Internal Medicine,…

  • Y-STR diversity and ethnic admixture in White and Mulatto Brazilian population samples Genetics and Molecular Biology (Former title: Brazilian Journal of Genetics) Volume 29, Number 4 (São Paulo  2006) pages 605-607 DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572006000400004 ISSN 1415-4757 Luzitano Brandão Ferreira Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil…

  • Racial inequalities and perinatal health in the southeast region of Brazil Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research Volume 40, Number 9 (September 2007) pages 1187-1194 DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006005000144 ISSN 1678-4510 L. M. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, MA, Brasil R. A. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do…