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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Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics
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Will Precision Medicine Move Us beyond Race? The New England Journal of Medicine 2016-05-26 (Volume 374, Number 21) DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1511294 Vence L. Bonham, J.D., Senior Advisor to the NHGRI Director on Genomics and Health Disparities National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland Shawneequa L. Callier, J.D., Professorial Lecturer in Law Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Charmaine…
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A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry Slate 2016-06-29 Matt Miller You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either. Our genes dictate certain things about us, but ethnicity is not derived from a single gene. Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election, has decided to dredge up old…
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Future Humans Will All Look Brazilian, Researcher Says Business Insider 2012-09-19 Natalie Wolchover It really happened: Six generations of inbreeding spanning the years 1800 to 1960 caused an isolated population of humans living in the hills of Kentucky to become blue-skinned. The startlingly blue people, all descendants of a French immigrant named Martin Fugate and…
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Another Health Funder That’s Focused on Race in a Big Way Inside Philanthropy 2016-06-16 Rob McCarthy The racial dimension of health equity has long preoccupied top funders in the healthcare space and it’s not hard to see why. Spend five minutes looking at health data for the United States and you’ll be blown away by…
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Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…