Category: United States

  • Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014 131 pages (21 4C, 5B&W), index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-621820-90-1 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936113-25-5 Edited by: Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine Since the appearance…

  • What I am learning from my white grandchildren — truths about race TEDxAntioch 2014-11-04 Anthony Peterson This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Are we in a post-racial society? Do we want to be? Anthony Peterson, an African American, draws from current research and from conversations with…

  • This Essay aims to engage readers in a thought experiment, to envision what equal protection doctrine might look like if it were structured to reflect the values identity is intended to serve without explicitly invoking identity categories as a way to delineate permissible and impermissible forms of discrimination.

  • Do You Have a Cherokee in Your Family Tree? History News Network George Mason University 2015-10-18 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Gregory D. Smithers is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (Yale…

  • The Poetry Society of America Presents: A Tribute to the Poet Ai Proshansky Auditorium CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue (at 34th Street) New York, New York 10016 Monday, 2015-10-19 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Ai In light of the poet’s unexpected passing in 2010 and in celebration of her Collected Poems (Norton, 2012), the PSA…

  • The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity Yale University Press 2015-09-29 368 pages 17 b/w illustrations 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300169607 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than…

  • Tired of Tradition, Honey Maid’s Marketing Chief Chose to Put the Spotlight on Modern Families Adweek 2015-10-18 T.L. Stanley Gary Osifchin, Honey Maid portfolio lead, Mondelez Photo: Sasha Maslov Adweek’s 2015 Brand Genius winner for CPG/food It always seemed strange to Gary Osifchin that the characters in traditional advertising were so, well, traditional. “There was…

  • Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of Race American Psychologist Volume 60, Number 1, January 2005 pages 16–26 DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.60.1.16 Audrey Smedley Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Medicine Brian D. Smedley Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Medicine Racialized science seeks to…

  • Misty Copeland on Why She Doesn’t Identify as Biracial: ‘I Am Viewed as a Black Woman’ Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2015-10-15 Evelyn Diaz Misty Copeland The history-making ballerina on changing the game. Misty Copeland and director Nelson George recently talked about their new documentary, A Ballerina’s Tale, which chronicles Copeland’s awe-inspiring rise to becoming the…

  • Changes in racial categorization over time and health status: an examination of multiracial young adults in the USA Ethnicity & Health Published online: 2015-06-08 DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2015.1042431 Karen M. Tabb, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Objective: Multiracial (two or more races) American health related to racial stability over the life course is…