Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color/race in Brazil BioSocieties March 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1 pages 48–69 DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2014.21 Ricardo Ventura Santos Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/ FIOCRUZ & Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gláucia Oliveira da Silva Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil Sahra Gibbon, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University…
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The Color of American Genomics: Genetics in the Era of Racialized Medicine University of California, Los Angeles 306 Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive Los Angeles, California 90095 Friday, 2016-12-09, 13:30-16:30 PST (Local Time) SPEAKERS: Michael Montoya, Associate Professor University of California, Irvine Sandra Soo Jin Lee, Senior Research Scholar Stanford University Joan Donovan University of…
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Race In The Northwest: Hood River Man Learns His Family’s Surprising Truth Oregon Public Broadcasting 2016-12-07 Anna Griffin, News Director Hood River writer and cidermaker John Metta. Anna Griffin/OPB Hood River, Oregon—John Metta grew up thinking of himself as mixed race: His mother was white. His father’s side of the family proudly proclaimed themselves a blend of…
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You took a DNA test and it says you are Native American. So what? PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2016-11-24 Andrea Crossan, Senior Producer Boston, Massachusetts Have you been tempted to try one of those genetic testing kits, like the ones sold by Ancestry.com or 23andme.com? Maybe you’ve seen a commercial featuring Kim Trujillo.…
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The New American Face The Atlantic 2016-11-21 James Hamblin, Senior Editor The least and most attractive male faces, based on statistical models. Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism—but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought. Since the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama has shifted into a prophylactic stance. He…
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In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race? FiveThirtyEight 2016-11-06 Farai Chideya, Senior Writer When I was younger, I had an idea for a satire in which a group of rogue genealogists would get blood samples from racially incendiary white politicians. They’d run DNA tests on them to see if they were…