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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- 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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The renewed emphasis on population-specific genetic variation, exemplified most prominently by the International HapMap Project, is complicated by a longstanding, uncritical reliance on existing population categories in genetic research.
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Comorbid substance use disorders with other Axis I and II mental disorders among treatment-seeking Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race people Journal of Psychiatric Research Available online 2013-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.08.022 Li-Tzy Wu, ScD, RN, MA, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Duke University Medical Center,…
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Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-17, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa…
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There Is No Scientific Rationale for Race-Based Research Journal of the National Medical Association Volume 99, Number 6 (June 2007) pages 690-692 Eddie L. Hoover, Professor of Surgery State University of New York, Buffalo For centuries, the colonial governments used a combination of race and ethnic characteristics to subjugate and control people of color, and…
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Black and White Medicine PsycCRITIQUES Volume 58, Number 32 (August 2013) 5 pages Alejandra Suarez, Professor of Psychology Antioch University, Seattle A review of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Jonathan Kahn New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2013. 311 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-16298-2 (hardcover); ISBN…
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Disparity in Breast Cancer Between Black and White Women Can Be Eliminated by Regular Mammography Screening Rush University Medical Center News Release 2012-09-25 (CHICAGO) — Regular mammography screening can help narrow the breast cancer gap between black and white women, according to a retrospective study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment in August. Earlier…
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Our Zip Code May Be More Important Than Our Genetic Code: Social Determinants of Health, Law and Policy Social Determinants of Health Rhode Island Medical Journal Volume 96, Number 7 (July 2013) Dannie Ritchie, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Lead, Transcultural Community Health Initiative Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention…