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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Breast cancer and racialized medicine Race, Racism & Human Genetics IDS 243: Race, Racism, and Human Genetics Willamette University Salem, Oregon 2014-11-28 Stephanie Matsuura Katie Herr Camille Debreczeny Race, Racism & Human Genetics IDS 243: Race, Racism, and Human Genetics is an interdisciplinary course taught at Willamette University by Emily Drew and Chris Smith. This…
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How Europeans evolved white skin Science 2015-04-02 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2435 Ann Gibbons, Contributing Correspondent ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most…
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Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun (review) Configurations Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2015 pages 127-130 DOI: 10.1353/con.2015.0000 Lindsey Andrews, Visiting Scholar of English Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Braun, Lundy, Breathing Race into…
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“General Heads,” Great Minds, and the Genesis of Scientific Racism Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Volume 15, Number 2, Spring 2015 pages 112-118 Robin Runia, Assistant Professor of English Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana It is commonly presum’d that the Heat of the Climate wherein they live, is the reason, why so…
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Genetics: No evidence of role in racial mortality gap Science Daily: Your source for the latest research news 2015-03-16 There is still no evidence of genetic difference between blacks and whites to account for the health disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a new study by McGill University researchers. Published in the American Journal…
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The Contribution of Genomic Research to Explaining Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review American Journal of Epidemiology First Published online: 2015-03-01 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu319 Jay S. Kaufman, Professor Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lena Dolman McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Dinela Rushani McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada…
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A reconsideration of the role of self-identified races in epidemiology and biomedical research Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Available online: 2015-03-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.004 Ludovica Lorusso Department of Political Science, Communication, Engineering and Information Technologies University of Sassari, Italy Department of Philosophy…