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
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- 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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Heterogeneity of risk within racial groups, a challenge for public health programs Preventive Medicine Volume 55, Issue 5, November 2012 Pages 405–408 DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.08.022 Sean A. Valles, Assistant Professor Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University Targeting high-risk populations for public health interventions is a classic tool of public health promotion programs. This practice becomes thornier…
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Heredity in Color Hawke’s Bay Herald New Zealand Volume XXIII, Issue 7956 1888-01-21 Page 2 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa If a white man marries a negro, their children, boys and girls alike, are all mulattos. Lot us make to ourselves no allusions or mistakes upon this…
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Regular screening mammography before the diagnosis of breast cancer reduces black:white breast cancer differences and modifies negative biological prognostic factors Breast Cancer Research and Treatment Volume 135, Number 2 (2012) pages 549-553 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2193-3 Paula Grabler Feinberg College of Medicine Northwestern University Danielle Dupuy Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Taskforce, Chicago, Illinois Jennifer Rai University of…
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Race in a Bottle Scientific American Volume 297 (January 1, 2007) pages 40-45 Jonathan D. Kahn, Professor of Law Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science. This article focuses on the drug, BiDil – a drug…
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Spirometry, Measurement, and Race in the Nineteenth Century Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 60, Number 2, April 2005 pages 135-169 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Race correction is a common practice in contemporary pulmonary medicine that involves…
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The New Virginia Law To Preserve Racial Integrity Virginia Health Bulletin Virginia Department of Health Volume XVI, Extra Number 2 (March 1924) pages 1-4 Source: Pamphlet: Rockbridge County Clerk’s Correspondence, 1912–1943. Local Government Records Collection. The Library of Virginia, (Racial Integrity Act Documents) 12-1245-005 W. A. Plecker, M. D. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond,…
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What is “race”? Does the concept of race represent a natural and inevitable understanding of human difference? Does race have any biological meaning, or is it merely an artificial construct employed by society and political bodies? If race is the former, then how can modern society avoid a rebirth of racial eugenics? And yet if…
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Review of Fatal Invention, by Professor Dorothy Roberts Race and the Law: A Critical Examination of Science, Law and the Construction of Race 2011-12-07 Christian B. Sundquist, Associate Professor of Law Albany Law School Professor Dorothy Roberts has recently released a vitally important book on issues of race and genetics, entitled Fatal Invention: How Science,…