Category: Articles

  • Saint Augustine’s College senior’s documentary wins award at film festival Saint Augustine’s College, Raleigh, North Carolina Press Release 2010-10-19 LaToya Sutton, Communications Specialist Eric Barstow’s short documentary, “Bi/Racial Me,” won the “Best Short Documentary” award at the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, held October. 14-17, [2010] in Norcross, Georgia The film was an official film selection festival.…

  • As Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has shown, being mixed race in America means balancing black and white identities

  • Mixing Blood: What Does “Biracialism” Do to the Notion of “Race”? [Book Review] PINS (Psychology in Society) Volume 31 (2005) pages 99-105 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban Book review: Rockquemore, Kerry Ann & David L. Brunsma (2002) Beyond Black: Biracial identity in America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN 0-7619-2322-5 pbk. Pages…

  • Between Race; Beyond Race: The Experience of Self-Identification of Indian-White Biracial Young Adults and the factors Affecting their Choices of Identity PINS (Psychology in Society) Issue 34 (2006) pages 1-16 Dennis Francis, Dean of Education University of The Free State, South Africa This study, based on my doctoral research, is an exploration of how nine…

  • White mother given mixed race sperm in IVF loses compensation claim British Medical Journal Volume 341, Number 5806 2010-10-15 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c5806 Clare Dyer Two children in Northern Ireland whose white mother was mistakenly impregnated with sperm from South Africa labelled “Caucasian (Cape Coloured)” during in vitro fertilisation have failed in a compensation claim at the…

  • Appropriating the One-Drop Rule: Family Guy on Reparations Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture Volume 7: Open Issue (2010) Jason Jones University of Washington The one-drop rule, or the notion that one drop of African blood renders a person black, once played a vital role in the expansion of the nineteenth-century American slave…

  • Utilizing the Strengths of Our Cultures: Therapy with Biracial Women and Girls Women & Therapy Volume 27 Issue 1 & 2 (January 2004) pages 33-43 ISSN: 1541-0315 (electronic); 0270-3149 (paper) DOI: 10.1300/J015v27n01_03 Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Historically, psychology…

  • Mapping genes that predict treatment outcome in admixed populations The Pharmacogenomics Journal Published Online: 2010-10-05 DOI: 10.1038/tpj.2010.71 Tesfaye Mersha Baye, Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Russell Alan Wilke, Associate Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center There is great interest in characterizing the genetic architecture underlying drug response. For many drugs, gene-based…

  • Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy European Journal of Human Genetics Volume 15 (2007) pages 288–293 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201771 Turi E. King University of Leicester Emma J. Parkin University of Leicester Geoff Swinfield Geoff Swinfield Genealogical Services, Mottingham, London Fulvio Cruciani Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’…

  • Colby Cosh: Obama’s family tree might have hung him from a limb National Post 2008-10-24 Colby Cosh Ever since Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for the presidency, American political observers have been arguing endlessly over whether his race will be a net help or a hindrance to him at the polls November 4. Strangely,…