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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“Whitening” and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian “Rainbow Nation” The Postcolonialist 2014-03-04 Sarah Lempp To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its “discovery” by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a “rainbow nation” without discrimination or racism; a place where people from various ethnicities live peacefully together. That…
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Should biologists stop grouping us by race? STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-02-04 Sharon Begley More than a decade after leading geneticists argued that race is not a true biological category, many studies continue to use it, harming scientific understanding and possibly patients, researchers argued in a provocative essay in Science…
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Teaching medical students to challenge ‘unscientific’ racial categories STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-03-10 Ike Swetlitz Dr. Brooke Cunningham talks about race to medical students at the University of Minnesota. Jenn Ackerman for Stat MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Medical students looking to score high on their board exams sometimes get a bit…
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Hew To The Line And Let The Chips Fall Where They May. The Broad Ax Salt Lake City, Utah 1903-09-05 (Volume VIII, Number 45) page 1, columns 5-6 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. (For “The Broad Ax”) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,—8. The reader will observe the figures at…
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Racialization, between power and knowledge: a postcolonial reading of public health as a discursive practice Journal of Critical Race Inquiry Volume 1, Number 2 (2011) Patrick Cloos University of Montréal This paper presents and discusses the interdisciplinary theoretical perspective that has been built from a doctoral research on contemporary notions of ̒ race ̓ in…
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DNA ancestry tests branded ‘meaningless’ The Telegraph 2013-03-07 Nick Collins, Science Correspondent Customers are being charged up to £300 to learn whether they have links to famous people or societies despite the fact many of the tests are not backed up by scientific evidence, experts said. The amount of DNA any individual inherits from relatives…
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Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient’s skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk,…