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
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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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A growing number of forensic researchers are questioning how the field interprets the geographic ancestry of human remains.
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If nothing in medicine changes, it’s just a matter of time before yet another race-based risk calculator harms people of color.
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The shift comes as the Biden administration pressures Native tribes in Oklahoma to desegregate their constitutions to comply with treaty obligations.
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Both Organizations Recommend Race-Free Approach to Estimate GFR
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Retrospection: Agassiz’s Expeditions in Brazil The Harvard Crimson 2016-04-21 Michelle Y. Raji Louis Rodolphe Agassiz But for Agassiz, the trip to Brazil was about more than science. Not only was evolution—a process not immediately observable to the human eye—deeply antithetical to Agassiz’s staunch empiricism, evolution was profoundly at odds with his perceived world order. Three…
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A birth certificate masked my multiracial truth. For me and 33 million others, the 2020 Census asserts it. The Washington Post 2021-08-31 Steve Majors More than 33 million people in the United States identify as being of two or more races, according to the 2020 Census, a 276 percent jump from the 2010 head count.…
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Abolish race correction The Lancet Volume 397, Issue 10268 (2021-01-02) pages 17-18 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32716-1 Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Several years ago my daughter sent me an alarming text. She copied the…
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How scientists are subtracting race from medical risk calculators Science Magazine 2021-07-22 Jyoti Madhusoodanan Portland, Oregon Anuj Shrestha To pediatrician Nader Shaikh, the rhythm of treating babies running high fevers is familiar. After ruling out the obvious colds and other common viruses, he must often thread a catheter into a months-old baby to draw a…