Mixed Race Studies

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  • Validity of Infant Race/Ethnicity from Birth Certificates in the Context of U.S. Demographic Change

    Validity of Infant Race/Ethnicity from Birth Certificates in the Context of U.S. Demographic Change Health Services Research Volume 49, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 249–267 DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12083 Lisa Reyes Mason, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Tennessee, Knoxville Yunju Nam, Associate Professor of Social Work State University of New York, Buffalo Youngmi Kim, Assistant…

  • Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine

    Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Program in Science and Technology Studies 2014-03-26 This February, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence, professor of medical science and Africana studies, and a member of the Science and Technology Studies Program, Lundy Braun released her new book Breathing…

  • Approaching race as a social rather than biological construct

    Approaching race as a social rather than biological construct The Daily Pennsylvanian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-04-08 Laura Anthony The Program on Race, Science and Society will examine the role of race in scientific research at upcoming symposium In 1851, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine graduate Samuel Cartwright delivered a report to the Medical Association…

  • Penn symposium tackles race, science, and society

    Penn symposium tackles race, science, and society Penn Current: News Ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania 2014-04-03 Katherine Unger Baillie Is race a biological category? How does race figure into scientific research, clinical practice, and the development and use of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals? And what can we learn from historical…

  • Ancestry Informative Markers Clarify the Regional Admixture Variation in the Costa Rican Population

    Ancestry Informative Markers Clarify the Regional Admixture Variation in the Costa Rican Population Human Biology Volume 85, Number 5, October 2013 pages 721-740 DOI: 10.1353/hub.2013.0041 Rebeca Campos-Sánchez Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Henriette Raventós, Associate Professor and Researcher Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Ramiro Barrantes, Professor of Biology Universidad…

  • We Are all Mutants: Uncovering humanity’s vast diversity

    We Are all Mutants: Uncovering humanity’s vast diversity The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-03-24 Paul Voosen, Senior Reporter On the hunt for disease genes, researchers uncover humanity’s vast diversity The first people to set foot on Barbados, a wind-battered eastern spur of the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles, came from the south, and relatively…

  • I Just Discovered that I am “Black”

    I Just Discovered that I am “Black” The Thom Hartmann Program: “Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day” 2014-03-04 Thom Hartmann, Host All one has to do is to pay $99, spit something like 10 cubic centimeters of saliva into a test tube, send it to 23andme, and you too, can discover all the…

  • Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender – Dorothy Roberts

    Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender – Dorothy Roberts University of California, Berkeley Alumni House Friday, 2014-03-07, 17:00-19:30 PST (Local Time) Join us for a discussion with Prof. Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century.  Lecture…

  • Dynamic representations of race: processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri

    Dynamic representations of race: processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Volume 9 Issue 3 (March 2014) pages 326-332 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss138 Christian Kaul Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York University Kyle G. Ratner Department of Psychology New York University Jay J. Van Bavel, Assistant…

  • On Race, Medicine, and Reproduction: An Interview with Dorothy Roberts

    On Race, Medicine, and Reproduction: An Interview with Dorothy Roberts Bluestockings Magazine Brown University February 2014 (2014-02-14) Dorothy Roberts is a scholar, professor, author and social justice advocate, and currently the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has published a range of groundbreaking articles and books analyzing issues…