Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • HLA class I variation controlled for genetic admixture in the Gila River Indian Community of Arizona: A model for the Paleo-Indians Human Immunology Volume 33, Issue 1 (January 1992) Pages 39–46 DOI: 10.1016/0198-8859(92)90050-W Robert C. Williams Histocompatibility Laboratory, Blood Systems, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University Joan E. McAuley Histocompatibility Laboratory, Blood…

  • Blood Is Thicker than Water: Policing Donor Insemination and the Reproduction of Whiteness Hypatia Volume 22, Issue 2 (May 2007): Special Issue: The Reproduction of Whiteness: Race and the Regulation of the Gendered Body pages 143–161 DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb00986.x Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Faculty Associate College of Nutrition and Health Promotion Arizona State University On the most…

  • Racial Differences and Witch Hunting Science Magazine Volume 135, Number 3507 (1962-03-16) pages 982-984 DOI: 10.1126/science.135.3507.982-a Henry E. Garrett In a recent issue of Science (1), Santiago Genovés of the University of Mexico discourses at some length concerning a paper of mine published in the Mankind Quarterly last year (2). Genovés objects to my criticism…

  • The Seminole Indians of Florida: Morphology and Serology American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 32, Number 1 (January, 1970) pages 65-81 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Donald L. Rucknagel University of Michigan Richard E. Tashian University of Michigan Donald C. Shreffler University of Michigan Webster C. Leyshon National Institute of Dental…

  • While many commentators who supported the approval of BiDil for black patients state that “race” is not a scientifically precise term for identifying relevant genomic or physiological characteristics that differentiate population groups, nevertheless, they argue that “self-identified race” is a useful proxy for those characteristics. However, what is the evidence that the proxy “self-identified race”…

  • Health in Black and White: Debates on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Brazil University of California, San Diego 2011 320 pages Publication Number: AAT 3458492 ISBN: 9781124703657 Anna Pagano A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology In 2006, the Brazilian Health Council approved a…

  • According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems until people understand that separate human races do not exist empirically. With the biological basis for race removed, racism becomes an ideology, one that can and must be expunged.

  • The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America Plume an imprint of Penguin June 2005 320 pages 5.35 x 7.99in Paperback ISBN: 9780452286580 Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro Preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph…

  • Biological v. Social Definitions of Race: Implications for Modern Biomedical Research The Review of Black Political Economy Volume 37, Number 1 (2010) pages 43-60 DOI: 10.1007/s12114-009-9053-3 Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro Misconceptions concerning the concordance…

  • Marriages between African and Native Americans produced many children Louisiana Weekly 2012-01-02 (Healthy Living News) —Native Americans with African ancestry produced more children than ‘full bloods’ in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, a new study demonstrates. Research by Michael Logan, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee shows that increased fertility occurred…