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
- 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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Lawsuit: Wrong sperm delivered to lesbian couple The Chicago Tribune 2014-10-01 Meredith Rodriguez, Tribune reporter A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise…
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea Harvard University Press October 2014 384 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 4 halftones, 2 line illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674417311 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all…
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Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series University of North Carolina Press September 2014 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25, index Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1800-5 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University Who are we, and where do we…
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Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality by Michael J. Montoya (review) [Wentzell] The Americas Volume 71, Number 1, July 2014 pages 179-181 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2014.0105 Emily Wentzell, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Iowa Montoya, Michael J., Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality (Berkeley: University of…
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Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality University of California Press March 2011 282 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520267305 Paperback ISBN: 9780520267312 Michael J. Montoya, Professor of Anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies & Public Health University of California, Irvine This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2…
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Study reveals the mysterious ancestors of modern Europeans The Washington Post 2014-09-18 Gail Sullivan, Reporter Some had dark skin and blue eyes. Some had light skin and brown eyes. And no one is sure what some others looked like. But, according to a new study of ancient human genomes, three very different populations got together…
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“No Rainbow Families” and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies Impact Ethics: Making a Difference in Bioethics 2014-09-08 Catherine Clune-Taylor, Doctoral Candidate Department of Philosophy University of Alberta, Canada Catherine Clune-Taylor suggests that we should target institutional and interpersonal racism rather than restrict individual reproductive choice A July 2014 Calgary Herald article revealed that Calgary’s…
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How Racism Creeps Into Medicine The Atlantic 2014-08-29 Hamza Shaban Washington, D.C. The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference. In 1864, the year before the Civil War ended, a massive study was launched to quantify the bodies of Union soldiers. One key finding in what would become a 613-page…
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Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth and Culture [Hauskeller Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1946-1948 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.870348 Christine Hauskeller, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology University of Exeter, United Kingdom Race and the genetic revolution: science, myth and culture, edited…