Category: United States

  • Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah’s Musical Performance in Tribe 8 Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 10, Number 4 (August 2010) pages 295-306 Deanna Shoemaker, Assistant Professor of Applied Communication (Performance Studies) Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey This essay analyzes the musical performances of Leslie Mah, biracial lead guitarist and backup vocalist for the…

  • This book features engaging scholarly essays, poems and creative writings that all examine the meanings of the Black anatomy in our changing global world. The body, including its hair, is said to be read like a text where readers draw center interpretations based on signs, symbols, and culture.

  • Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far’s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 54, Number 4, Winter 2008 pages 654-688 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1561 Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Assistant Professor of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst This essay looks at how Sui Sin Far’s…

  • The Meaning of Race in Healthcare and Research-Part 2: Should Race Be Used in Health Care and Research? Pediatric Nursing Volume 31, Number 4 (July-August 2005) Pages 305-308 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma The state of race today is complex and challenging. An article published in the…

  • Editorial: “Race Correction” in Pulmonary-Function Testing New England Journal of Medicine 2010-07-07 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1005902 Paul D. Scanlon, M.D. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota Mark D. Shriver, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University, University Park (M.D.S.) Tests of pulmonary function and radiographic imaging of the chest are the two…

  • Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions New England Journal of Medicine 2010-07-07 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0907897 Rajesh Kumar, M.D. Max A. Seibold, Ph.D. Melinda C. Aldrich, Ph.D., M.P.H. L. Keoki Williams, M.D., M.P.H. Alex P. Reiner, M.D. Laura Colangelo, M.S. Joshua Galanter, M.D. Christopher Gignoux, M.S. Donglei Hu, Ph.D. Saunak Sen, Ph.D. Shweta Choudhry, Ph.D. Edward L. Peterson,…

  • The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice New England Journal of Medicine 2003-03-20 Volume 348, Number 12 pages 1170-1175 Esteban González Burchard, M.D. Elad Ziv, M.D. Natasha Coyle, Ph.D. Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D. Hua Tang, Ph.D. Andrew J. Karter, Ph.D. Joanna L. Mountain, Ph.D. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. Dean…

  • Genetic screening may redefine medical treatments KGO-TV San Francisco, California 2010-07-07 Carolyn Johnson, Co-Anchor KGO-TV SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — New research out of UCSF [University of California, San Francisco] shows that tracking a patient’s genetic ancestry can improve the diagnosis of asthma and other lung diseases. The results could have broader implications for other diseases…

  • Genetic ancestry data improve diagnosis in asthma and lung disease University of California, San Fransisco News Release 2010-07-07 Kristen Bole Released Jointly by UCSF and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, and National Jewish Health Americans with lung disease may face a far greater level of lung damage than either they or…

  • Triracial isolates represent some two hundred communities scattered throughout the eastern United States, particularly in the southeast, of varying combinations and degrees of European American, Native American, and African American descent. The triracial isolates are known by a wide variety of names. New York is the home of the Van Guilders, the Clappers, the Shinnecock,…