Mixed Race Studies

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  • Review of Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in the Post-Genomic Age

    Review of Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in the Post-Genomic Age The American Journal of Bioethics Volume 15, 2015 – Issue 10 pages W4-W5 DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1067339 Nathan Nobis, Associate Professor of Philosophy Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia In 2005 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug…

  • Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America

    Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America Praeger October 2016 645 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-4992-3 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-4993-0 Edited by: Patricia Reid-Merritt, Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Africana Studies Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey Is race simply an antiquated, pseudo-scientific abstraction developed to justify the dehumanization…

  • DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow

    DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow The Albuquerque Journal 2014-03-21 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University I am filming guest interviews for Season 2 of the genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” airing on PBS this September. One of…

  • White Nonsense

    White Nonsense Vice News 2016-10-09 Elspeth Reeve Alt-right trolls are arguing over genetic tests they think “prove” their whiteness Andrew remembers feeling a “tinge of apprehension” when he logged on to 23andMe. Several weeks earlier, he’d spit into a tube and mailed it to the genetic testing company, which analyzes customers’ DNA to estimate where…

  • Racial identity is a biological nonsense, says Reith lecturer

    Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah says race and nationality are social inventions being used to cause deadly divisions

  • Being “Dual Heritage” In Modern Britain

    Being “Dual Heritage” In Modern Britain HC At Exeter Cornwall 2016-10-11 Stacey Harris, 2nd year Environmental Science Student Solihull, West Midlands As many of you may be aware, October is Black History Month, which acts as a platform for education, reflection and a celebration of the trials and triumphs of African and Caribbean communities throughout…

  • Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness

    Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness Policy Press 2016-10-05 224 pages 6¾ x 9½ Cloth ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-2281-8 Paper ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-2282-5 Shirley A. Hill, Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Kansas This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and…

  • Mixed Match documentary explores difficult search for multi-ethnic donors

    Mixed Match documentary explores difficult search for multi-ethnic donors CBC Radio-Canada 2016-10-01 Emotional documentary about mixed-race patients seeking bone marrow, stem cell donors, a call to action It means a lot to film maker Jeff Chiba Stearns to have his new documentary Mixed Match showing at the Vancouver International Film Festival, a multi-cultural city he calls home. Stearns ancestry…

  • Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy

    Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy New York University Press September 2016 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781479808175 Paper ISBN: 9781479894864 Laura Harrison, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Minnesota State University, Mankato Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman—through in-vitro fertilization…

  • A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find

    A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find The New York Times 2016-09-21 Carl Zimmer The KhoiSan, hunter-gatherers living today in southern Africa, above, are among hundreds of indigenous people whose genetic makeup has provided new clues to human prehistory. Credit: Eric Laforgue/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000…