Mixed Race Studies

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  • And you thought we had moved beyond all that: biological race returns to the social sciences

    And you thought we had moved beyond all that: biological race returns to the social sciences Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1676-1685 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.931992 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Recently, sociologists have argued in high-profile journals that racial categories…

  • “Everyone Knows It’s a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race

    “Everyone Knows It’s a Social Construct”: Contemporary Science and the Nature of Race Sociological Focus Volume 40, Issue 4, 2007 pages 436-454 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2007.10571319 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not…

  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach

    Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Oxford University Press 2014-08-01 528 pages 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780199920013 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach engages students in critical questions related to racial dynamics in the U.S. and around the world. Written in accessible,…

  • Whose Sperm Counts?

    Whose Sperm Counts? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-08-19 Lara Freidenfelds, Historian of Sex, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in America Recently, a Canadian fertility clinic made the news because it refused to allow a white client to be impregnated with sperm from a donor of color. The clinic director told the media, “I’m…

  • Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the ‘Ethnic Plastic Surgery’ Minefield

    Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the ‘Ethnic Plastic Surgery’ Minefield New York Magazine 2014-07-27 Maureen O’Connor “You’ve got some nice Caucasian features,” Dr. Edmund Kwan says, inspecting my face at his Upper East Side plastic-surgery practice, where the waiting room includes an ottoman larger than my kitchen table. “You’re half-Asian mixed with what?” Chinese…

  • The problem with sub-Saharan Africa and DNA analysis tools

    The problem with sub-Saharan Africa and DNA analysis tools Genealogy Adventures 2014-07-08 Brian Sheffey This is the first post in a series that covers issues I’ve experienced with reporting of sub-Saharan African results in DNA analysis. This series of posts will have a particular emphasis on DNA testing for African Americans. Over the next series…

  • Fatal Invention with Dorothy Roberts

    Fatal Invention with Dorothy Roberts Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-07-24, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-07-25, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and…

  • No ‘rainbow families’: Ethnic donor stipulation at fertility centre ‘floors’ local woman

    No ‘rainbow families’: Ethnic donor stipulation at fertility centre ‘floors’ local woman Calgary Herald Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014-07-25 Jessica Barrett A Calgary woman says she was shocked to learn of a policy at the city’s only fertility treatment centre that restricts patients from using sperm, eggs or embryos from donors who do not match their…

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference by Anne Pollock (review)

    Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference by Anne Pollock (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 88, Number 2, Summer 2014 pages 393-395 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2014.0025 Lundy Braun, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Africana Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Anne Pollock, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference…

  • Mexico boasts a staggering genetic diversity, study shows

    Mexico boasts a staggering genetic diversity, study shows Los Angeles Times 2014-06-12 Geoffrey Mohan SHARELINES ▼ DNA offers a nuanced answer to what it means to be Mexican ▼ Ancient genetic signal survived conquest in Mexico ▼ Latino and Hispanic labels don’t do justice to Mexico’s genome Writers, artists and historians have long pondered what…