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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On Race and Medicine The Scientist: Exploring Lie, Inspiring Innovation Volume 28, Issue 2 (Febuary 2014) Keith Norris, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, College of Medicine and Science David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Until health care becomes truly personalized, race and ethnicity will continue to be important clues guiding medical treatments. Clinical…
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Advancing Health Through A Racial Lens: The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice University of Maryland, College Park Stamp Student Union Banneker Room 2212 Thursday, 2014-02-20, 12:30-15:00 EST (Local Time) Moderated by: Dorothy Roberts J.D., Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, and the inaugural Raymond Pace and…
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Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied…
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Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters Wake Forest University Broyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106 Thursday, 2014-02-06, 19:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr., Associate Dean for Research, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University & UNC-Greensboro, will discuss the…
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Dark skin, blue eyes: Genes paint a picture of 7,000-year-old European NBC News 2014-01-26 Alan Boyle, Science Editor A 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin of an African, but the blue eyes of a Scandinavian. He was a hunter-gatherer who ate a low-starch diet and couldn’t…
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Race has always been a vague and slippery concept. In the mid-eighteenth century, European naturalists such as Linnaeus, Comte de Buffon, and Johannes Blumenbach described geographic groupings of humans who differed in appearance.
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The New York Times and NPR Are Still Clueless About Latinos Alisa Valdes: Official Website for Writer and Producer Alisa Valdes 2014-01-03 Alisa Valdes More than a decade ago, when I worked as a staff writer for two of the nation’s top newspapers (The Boston Globe and the LA Times), I was often disappointed to…
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DNA Double Take The New York Times 2013-09-16 Carl Zimmer From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person’s genetic information — or, as 23andme, a prominent…