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  • Taking race out of the equation in measuring women’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures

    Taking race out of the equation in measuring women’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures UCLA Newsroom University of California, Los Angeles 2012-10-18 Enrique Rivero For women of mixed racial or ethnic backgrounds, a new method for measuring bone health may improve the odds of correctly diagnosing their risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures, according to…

  • SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics

    SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Fall 2013 Rutledge M. Dennis, Professor of Sociology This course examines the issues, individuals, and groups central to the intersectionality of race, culture, and politics in American life. We will begin with the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case which solidified and legitimized…

  • Exploring African-American Fatherhood

    “In 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,” said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany. “It had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn’t even remember his name anymore.”

  • Obama bares his ‘blackness’ in Trayvon speech

    Obama bares his ‘blackness’ in Trayvon speech The Buffalo News 2013-07-20 Sonya Ross The Associated Press In a move unparalleled among presidents, Barack Obama reflects on being black in America. WASHINGTON – Something in President Obama’s voice caught Gregory C. Ellison’s ear. It was fleeting, subtle, and easy to miss — unless you’re a black…

  • Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness

    Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness The American Prospect 2013-07-19 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer On Obama’s remarks this afternoon. When President Obama issued a pro forma statement following last week’s verdict in the Zimmerman trial, there was some disappointment—“Why didn’t he say more?” It only takes a small step back to see the answer;…

  • Fracture Risk Assessment without Race/Ethnicity Information

    Fracture Risk Assessment without Race/Ethnicity Information The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Volume 97, Number 10 (2012-10-01) pages 3593-3602 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-1997 Shinya Ishii Department of Geriatric Medicine (S.I.) Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Gail A. Greendale David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Jane A. Caule Graduate School of…

  • Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept

    Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept Research in Phenomenology Volume 42, Issue 2 (2012) pages 206-228 DOI: 10.1163/156916412X651201 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University The phenomenological approach to racialization needs to be supplemented by a hermeneutics that examines the history of…

  • Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency

    Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency Linguistics and Education Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2013 pages 348–360 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.005 Benji Chang, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Curriculum & Teaching Teachers College, Columbia University, New York In this article, the author utilizes critical…

  • Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology

    Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology Anthropology News American Anthropological Association 2013-07-19 Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology City University of New York (and President of the American Anthropological Association) On February 26, 2012, 28-year-old George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old African American teenager who, after buying Skittles and iced tea at the local…

  • Mixed Race Studies with Steven Riley [on Research at the National Archives & Beyond]

    Mixed Race Studies with Steven Riley [on Research at the National Archives & Beyond] Research at the National Archives & Beyond Blog Talk Radio Thursday, 2013-07-25, 21:00 EDT, (18:00 PDT), (2013-07-26, 01:00Z, 02:00 BST) Natonne Kemp, Host Steven Riley is the creator of MixedRaceStudies.org which is a non-commercial website that provides a gateway to contemporary interdisciplinary English language…