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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Racial Aura: Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art in a Biotechnological Age Literature and Medicine Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2007) Special Issue: Genomics in Literature, Visual Arts, and Culture pages 207-239 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0011 Alys Eve Weinbaum, Associate Professor of English University of Washington [T]he meaning of racial difference is itself being changed, as…
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S.66, the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement bill in the 112th Congress — Reauthorizing an ineffective but socially dangerous pork-barrel waste of taxpayer dollars Hawaii Reporter 2011-03-07 Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D. S.66 is a bill in the 112th Congress entitled “The Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act,” introduced by Senator Dan Inouye on January 15,…
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Are medical and nonmedical uses of large-scale genomic markers conflating genetics and ‘race’? Nature Genetics Volume 36, Number 11s (2004) pages S43-S47 DOI: 10.1038/ng1439 Charles N. Rotimi, Director Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health “…with each birth and each death we alter the genetic attributes of human populations and drawing a line around…
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Changing the paradigm from ‘race’ to human genome variation Nature Genetics Volume 36, Number 11s (2004) pages S5-S7 DOI: 10.1038/ng1454 Charmaine D. M. Royal, Associate Research Professor Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy; Department of African and African American Studies Duke University Georgia M. Dunston, Founding Director, National Human Genome Center Howard University Knowledge from…
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Grassroots Marketing in a Global Era: More Lessons from BiDil The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2011 pages 79–90 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00552.x Britt M. Rusert, External Humanities Fellow Center for the Humanities Temple University Charmaine D. M. Royal, Associate Research Professor Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy; Department of African…
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Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African American Approaches to Race, Biomedicine, and Equality The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2008 pages 537–545 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.302.x Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of…
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The Founder Effect and Deleterious Genes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 30, Issue 1 (January 1969) pages 55-60 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330300107 Frank B. Livingstone (1928-2005), Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology University of Michigan During the rapid growth of a population from a few founders, a single deleterious gene in a founder can attain an appreciable…
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Treating a medical mosaic, doctors develop a new appreciation for the role of ethnicity in disease The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2012-02-15 Dakshana Bascaramurty, Reporter Baby X is born in a Canadian hospital and her tiny, wrinkled body is placed on a scale that reads 3,061 grams, or 6 pounds and 12 ounces. Things…
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Population structure and admixture in Cerro Largo, Uruguay, based on blood markers and mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms American Journal of Human Biology Volume 18, Issue 4 (July/August 2006) pages 513–524 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20520 Mónica Sans Departamento de Antropología Biológica, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Universidad de la República D. Andrew Merriwether Department of Anthropology…