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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Ethnic minorities: defining ethnicity and race The Scottish Public Health Observatory Ethnic Minorities Last Updated: 2012-03-06 Ethnicity Ethnicity has been defined as: “the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a mix of cultural and other factors including language, diet, religion, ancestry…
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Lung function, race and ethnicity: a conundrum European Respiratory Journal Volume 41, Number 6 (June 1, 2013) pages 1249-1250 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00053913 Philip H. Quanjer Deptartment of Pulmonary Diseases and Department of Paediatrics Erasmus Medical Centre Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands In this issue Braun et al. make a plea for an international workshop to review…
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Defining race/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function European Respiratory Journal Volume 41, Number 6 (June 1, 2013) pages 1362-1370 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00091612 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Melanie Wolfgang Brown University Kay Dickersin, Professor, Director, Center for Clinical Trials…
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Race Is Not Biology The Atlantic 2013-05-23 Merlin Chowkwanyun Departments of History and Public Health University of Pennsylvania How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine’s Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between “Hispanic” and…
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The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project New York University Press May 2013 303 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814790687 Kelly E. Happe, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Women’s Studies University of Georgia In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome,…
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Race has become a prominent focus for human biotechnology. Despite often good intentions, genetic technologies are being applied in a manner that may provide new justification for thinking about racial difference and racial disparities in biological terms—as if social categories of race reflect natural or inherent group differences.