Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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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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.
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Race-Based Medicine: Déjà Vu All Over Again? Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2012-09-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Race-based medicine has been one of the more contentious issues in pharmaceutical research and development over…
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Slooooooow Sales for BiDil® Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2006-10-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that sales for BiDil®—the first drug to receive FDAapproval to treat a specific race—are…
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A.C.T.O.R. presents Dorothy Roberts Busboys and Poets 14th & V Streets, NW Washington, D.C. Langston Room 2012-10-07, 17:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is author of “Fatal Invention: How Science,…
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Personalizing Medicine: Beyond Race Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 14, Number 8 (August 2012) pages 628-634 Timothy Chang, MD-PhD Student University of Wisconsin, Madison McNearney TA, Hunnicutt SE, Fischbach M, et al. Perceived functioning has ethnic-specific associations in systemic sclerosis: another dimension of personalized medicine. J Rheumatol. 2009;36(12):2724-2732. Considering the explosion…
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The United States Census in Its Relations to Sanitation Public Health Paper Report Volume 15 (1889) pages 43-46 John S. Billings, Surgeon, U.S.A. (1838-1913) I have several times inflicted upon this patient and long-suffering Association papers relating to statistical matters and methods, which, it must be confessed, were better fitted to serve for occasional reference than to occupy…