Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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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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Can Science Explain the Concept of Race? PsycCRITIQUES Volume 57, Release 16 (2012-04-18) Article 4 5 pages Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Amed Logrono, Senior Human Biology Major Brown University A review of Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture…
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Biological Distance and the African American Dentition Ohio State University 2002 229 pages Heather Joy Hecht Edgar A DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University Gene flow occurs whenever two human populations come in contact. African Americans are the…
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A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.
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The claim that persons identifying as multiracial suffer health risks due to the lack of a federal multiracial category is without foundation. On March 1 and 2, 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry conducted their Workshop on the Use of Race and Ethnicity in…
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Beyond Black and White: Color and Mortality in Post Reconstruction Era North Carolina Explorations in Economic History Published online: 2012-07-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2012.06.002 Tiffany L. Green, Postdoctoral Fellow Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin, Madison Tod G. Hamilton, Research Fellow Department of Society, Human Development, and Health School…
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Melbourne University Publishing March 2002 364 pages 235 x 154 mm, 25 b/w illustrations & 4 maps Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-522-84989-9 Warwick Anderson, Research Professor of History University of Sydney Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004 In this lucid and original…
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The author presents a comparative analysis of the histories of racial/color categorization in American and Brazilian censuses and shows that racial (and color) categories have appeared in these censuses because of shifting ideas about race and the enduring power of these ideas as organizers of political, economic, and social life in both countries.