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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Cook: Race and the practice of medicine The Casper Star Tribune Casper, Wyoming 2015-10-24 Edith Cook Edith Cook/Perspective We now know once and for all that race is not a biological phenomenon but a social construct. The Human Genome Project, completed in 2000, established that, genetically, all of us human beings are more than 99.9…
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The Racial Discrimination Embedded in Modern Medicine Newsweek 2015-10-20 Lindsey Konkel Minutes separated Are’Yana Hill from death as she struggled to breathe in the hallway of her San Francisco high school. The 18-year-old had lived with asthma attacks since before she could talk, and on that day, in April 2014, she could not speak. She…
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Public Symposium — DNA and Indigeneity Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-10-22, 12:30-17:30 PDT (Local Time) On October 22 at 12:30 pm, join us for the DNA and Indigeneity: The Changing Role of Genetics in Indigenous Rights, Tribal Belonging, and Repatriation conference in downtown Vancouver.…