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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“Black & Blue” is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients.
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The Trend of the Race: A Study of Present Tendencies in the Biological Development of Civilized Mankind Harcourt, Brace and Company 1921 396 pages (Digitized by Google) Samuel J. Holmes (1868-1964), Ph.D., Professor of Zoology University of California, Berkeley CONTENTS I. An Introductory Orientation II. The Hereditary Basis III. The Inheritance of Mental Defects and…
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Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race” Biological Theory July 2012 12 pages DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0048-0 Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Associate Professor of Philosophy Oregon State University Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of California, Santa Cruz It is illegitimate to read any ontology about “race”…
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Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense Harvard University Press February 2013 384 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 2 graphs, 4 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780674064461 Edited by Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning in the School of Arts; Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine in the School of Medicine…
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Racial Medicine: Not So Fast The Daily Beast 2008-08-19 Sharon Begley, Senior Health and Science Correspondent Reuters Next time you want to start a bar fight, proclaim to everyone within earshot that “race is not real; it is just a social and cultural construct and has no biological validity.” Then duck before you get punched…
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Mixed Race Blood, Bone Marrow Donors Needed To Save Gen Y Lives The Huffington Post-Canada 2013-01-31 Andree Lau One of Lourdess Sumners’ most vivid memories of her childhood battle with cancer was pining for real food while hooked up to a feeding tube and watching The Food Channel on TV. “It was horrible. I hated it,”…
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Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating Uncharted Waters Chapter in: Handbook of Asian American Health Springer 2013 pages 129-134 Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-2226-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-2227-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2227-3 Edited by: Grace J. Yoo San Francisco State University Mai-Nhung Le San Francisco State University Alan Y. Oda Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Chapter Author: Cathy J.…
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When should medicine talk about race? Scientific American Unofficial Prognosis: Perceptions and prescriptions of a medical student 2012-08-25 Ilana Yurkiewicz Harvard Medical School Race is everywhere in medicine. Most health statistics are broken down by race. We routinely characterize diseases by which populations they affect more and less and medications by which ethnicities respond better…
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Study Links Highly Segregated Counties and Lung Cancer Deaths in Blacks The New York Times 2013-01-16 Sabrina Tavernise African-Americans who live in highly segregated counties are considerably more likely to die from lung cancer than those in counties that are less segregated, a new study has found. The study was the first to look at…
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The End of Race History? Not Yet Center for Genetics and Society 2012-12-14 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, Hastings Have we gone beyond race? Many argue society has now overcome centuries of strife to become “post-racial”—a moment that law professor Sumi Cho of DePaul University in Chicago refers to as…