Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics
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Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda on Racial Prescriptions Theory, Culture & Society 2015-12-22 Sibille Merz, Doctoral Researcher Goldsmiths, University of London Questioning Racial Prescriptions: An interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda Sibille Merz: Racial Prescriptions provides a timely, illuminating and theoretically-engaged analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively…
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Eyes Wide Cut: The American Origins of Korea’s Plastic Surgery Craze The Wilson Quarterly Fall 2015 Laura Kurek South Korea’s obsession with cosmetic surgery can be traced back to an American doctor, raising uneasy questions about beauty standards. At sixteen stories high, the doctor’s office looms over the neon-colored metropolis. Within the high-rise, consultation offices,…
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On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives ed. by Richard Garcia (review) American Studies Volume 55, Number 1, 2016 pages 163-164 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2016.0057 David Colón-Cabrera ON RACE AND MEDICINE: Insider Perspectives. Edited by Richard Garcia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2015. The fields of anthropology and sociology, in addition to health sciences, have problematized the topic…
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The Misuse of Race in Medical Diagnosis Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics May 2004, Volume 113 / Issue 5 Richard S. Garcia I am a 39-year-old Hispanic male born in Stockton, Calif, to a mother who—after many years of unwise eating—has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and to a father I…
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This paper examines the scientific construction of racial differences through the lens of early twentieth-century bioanthropological studies of American Negro skeletal and living population samples.