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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- 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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Black And White In America: Study Reveals Many Americans Have Mixed Race Background They Were Unaware Of Medical Daily New York, New York 2014-12-18 Dana Dovey, Health Journalist Earlier this year, National Geographic made headlines with its “Changing Face of America” article. The story explained that America was becoming more comfortable with interracial relationships, and…
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We studied the genetic ancestry of 5,269 self-described African Americans, 8,663 Latinos, and 148,789 European Americans who are 23andMe customers and show that the legacy of these historical interactions is visible in the genetic ancestry of present-day Americans.
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Genetic diversity of Sub-Saharan Africa revealed BBC News 2014-12-04 Rebecca Morelle, Science Correspondent Scientists have completed a comprehensive study of genetic diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The African Genome Variation Project analysed the DNA of 1,800 people living across the continent. The data is helping scientists to understand how susceptibility to disease varies across the region…
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“Race Unmasked” revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea of race, and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age.
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The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science Published online: 2014-12-03 15 pages DOI: 10.1038/nature13997 Deepti Gurdasani Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom et. al. Given the importance of Africa to studies of human origins and disease susceptibility, detailed characterization of African genetic…
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Dorothy Roberts, “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.” McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23 Public Lecture: Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPenn, came to McMaster University on October 23, 2014 to give a lecture titled “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.” In her talk, Roberts…
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Racial divide: It’s a social concept, not a scientific one The Washington Post 2014-11-03 Nancy Szokan Most scientists agree that race is not a biological concept. As Wikipedia defines it, in an extremely lengthy and extravagantly footnoted entry that surely has been edited and re-edited many times, “Race is a social concept used to categorize…
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Who You Really Are GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 27, Issue 2 (May-July 2014) Robert Pollack, Professor of Biological Sciences, Earth Institute Professor, Adjunct Professor of Religion, Lecturer in Psychiatry Columbia University, New York, New York Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York “International Biosciences offer a broad…