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  • Taking race out of human genetics

    Taking race out of human genetics Science Volume 351, Issue 6273 (2016-02-05) pages 564-565 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4951 Michael Yudell, Associate Professor Dornsife School of Public Health Department of Community Health and Prevention Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander…

  • Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series)

    Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2016-02-01, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Jonathan Xavier Inda, Chair and Professor of Latino/a…

  • Race Policy and Multiracial Americans

    “Race Policy and Multiracial Americans” is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans.

  • Documenting the UK’s Black and Mixed Race Gingers

    Documenting the UK’s Black and Mixed Race Gingers Vice 2105-08-24 Natasha Culzac Francis Johnson by Michelle Marshall How would you describe a typical redhead? Do you think of Julianne Moore: light skinned and beautiful, with rust-coloured hair and a flush of crimson through her porcelain cheeks? Or do you think of Ed Sheeran? Either way,…

  • Black like her: Is racial identity a state of mind?

    Black like her: Is racial identity a state of mind? The Washington Post 2015-06-16 Amy Ellis Nutt, Reporter While people continue to question the motivations behind former NAACP official Rachel Dolezal’s claiming she is black, scientists say identity, even racial identity, doesn’t arise from any single place in the brain. Individuals contain different selves, often…

  • The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome

    The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome Beacon Press 2016-01-12 216pages 6 x 9 Inches Cloth ISBN: 978-080703301-2 Alondra Nelson, Dean of Social Science; Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies Columbia University, New York, New York The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America We know…

  • Rulemaking under way for DNA testing for Hawaiian homelands

    Rulemaking under way for DNA testing for Hawaiian homelands The Associated Press 2015-12-28 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher This Dec. 24, 2015 photo provided by Pat Kahawaiolaa shows Kahawaiolaa taking a selfie at Keaukaha Beach Park in Hilo, Hawaii. He is among those with at least 50 percent Native Hawaiian blood who are eligible for low-cost land…

  • Hairy Paws and Bald Heads: Anxiety and Authority in W. D. Howells’ An Imperative Duty

    Hairy Paws and Bald Heads: Anxiety and Authority in W. D. Howells’ An Imperative Duty American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 95-111 James Weaver, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio Intensely concerned with the cultural and personal implications of miscegenation and its resultant social upheaval, W. D. Howells’ An…

  • Philosophy of race meets population genetics

    Philosophy of race meets population genetics Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Volume 52, August 2015 pages 46–55 Genomics and Philosophy of Race DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.04.003 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania Highlights I discuss the recent human population-genetic research…

  • A Radical Solution to the Race Problem

    A Radical Solution to the Race Problem Philosophy of Science Volume 81, Number 5 (December 2014) pages 1025-1038 DOI: 10.1086/677694 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania It has become customary among philosophers and biologists to claim that folk racial classification has no biological basis. This paper attempts to debunk that view. In…