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  • Genomics and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Statistical Discrimination

    Genomics and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Statistical Discrimination The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 308, Number 19 (2012-11-21) pages 1979-1980 DOI: 10.1001/2012.jama.10820 Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, Professor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Ten years ago, 2 events occurred that have transformed biomedical research. In 2001, the draft sequence…

  • The concept and measurement of race and their relationship to public health: a review focused on Brazil and the United States

    The concept and measurement of race and their relationship to public health: a review focused on Brazil and the United States Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health Volume 20, Number 3, Rio de Janeiro, (May/June 2004) pages 660-678 DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2004000300003 Claudia Travassos Departamento de Informações em Saúde Centro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica, Fundação…

  • Othering Obama: How Whiteness is Used to Undermine Authority

    Othering Obama: How Whiteness is Used to Undermine Authority Altre Modernità/Other Modernities ISSN 2035-7680 Number 3 (2010) pages 112-119 DOI: 10.6092/2035-7680/517 David S. Owen, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director of Diversity Programs, College of Arts and Sciences University of Louisville In this paper, I argue that the sociocultural structuring property of whiteness has been utilized…

  • Race Card Project Creates New Type of Conversation

    Race Card Project Creates New Type of Conversation The Associated Press 2012-11-30 Jesse Washington, National Writer on Race and Ethnicity She asked for just six words. Michele Norris, the National Public Radio host, was starting a book tour for her memoir, which explored racial secrets. Sensing a change in the atmosphere after the election of…

  • Multiple Voices: Racial and Ethnic Socialization Within Interracial Asian and White Families

    Multiple Voices: Racial and Ethnic Socialization Within Interracial Asian and White Families Alliant International University, San Francisco 2012 138 pages Publication Number: AAT 3517943 ISBN: 9781267486448 Sarah Kasuga-Jenks Presented to the Faculty of The California School of Professional Psychology San Francisco Campus Alliant International University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of…

  • Biology, race and politics explored in upcoming Chancellor’s Lecture

    Biology, race and politics explored in upcoming Chancellor’s Lecture Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-10 Kara Furlong Is race a biological category written in our genes? Or are genomic scientists and biomedical researchers mistakenly using race to explain away health disparities among different population groups?   Dorothy Roberts, the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University…

  • Debra Yepa-Pappan: Dual(ing) Identities

    Debra Yepa-Pappan: Dual(ing) Identities Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place Santa Fe, New Mexico 2012-08-17 through 2012-12-31 SmDivine Spirits This exhibition focuses on Debra Yepa-Pappan’s reflective group of works that explore her dual identities. Yepa-Pappan is of Jemez Pueblo and Korean heritage. Through this multilayered collection of work, Yepa-Pappan layers instances of history,…

  • Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam

    Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam National Museum of the American Indian Potomac Atrium, 1st level Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. 2012-12-08, 19:00-22:00 EST (Local Time) Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam” is an artistic partnership designed to explore issues of identity, community and mixed heritage through art while reminding us that everyone, in…

  • Race, Skin Color, and Economic Outcomes in Early Twentieth-Century America

    Race, Skin Color, and Economic Outcomes in Early Twentieth-Century America Stanford University Job Market Paper 2012-11-28 53 pages Roy Mill Department of Economics Stanford University Luke C.D. Stein Department of Economics Stanford University We study the effect of race on economic outcomes using unique data from the first half of the twentieth century, a period…

  • How “Commonsense” Notions of Race, Class and Gender Infiltrate Families Formed across the Color Line

    How “Commonsense” Notions of Race, Class and Gender Infiltrate Families Formed across the Color Line Sociology Mind Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 75-69 ISSN Print: 2160-083X ISSN Online: 2160-0848 DOI: 10.4236/sm.2012.21010 Eileen T. Walsh, Assistant Professor of Sociology California State University, Fullerton This research presents data from in-depth interviews of sixty adults in…