Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • American Indians with African Ancestry: Differential Fertility and the Complexities of Social Identity Human Ecology Volume 39, Number 6 (December 2011) page 727-742 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-011-9439-2 Michael H. Logan, Professor of Anthropology University of Tennessee, Knoxville Interethnic marriage represents a major trend in the demographic history of American Indians. While the majority of these unions involved Indian…

  • Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Volume 1, Number 1 (2010) 16 pages Online ISSN: 2152-1875 10th Annual White Privilege Conference Keynote Address Saturday, April 4, 2009 Memphis, Tennessee Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…

  • The Realities of Races Is Race “Real”? A web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council 2006-06-07 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte Introduction Anthropologists have been studying race for over 200 years now, and contrary to what seems to be conventional wisdom (at least as articulated in Leroi’s New…

  • Genome Study Points to Adaptation in Early African-Americans The New York Times 2012-01-02 Nicholas Wade, Science Reporter Researchers scanning the genomes of African-Americans say they see evidence of natural selection as their ancestors adapted to the harsh conditions of their new environment in America. The scientists, led by Li Jin of the Chinese Academy of…

  • Comparison between two race/skin color classifications in relation to health-related outcomes in Brazil International Journal for Equity in Health Volume 10, Number 1, (2011-08-25) pages 35-42 DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-35 Claudia Travassos Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (ICICT/FIOCRUZ), Avenida Brasil Josué Laguardia Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde…

  • The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars Cambridge University Press September 1993 396 pages 228 x 152 mm ISBN: 9780521458757 DOI: 10.2277/0521458757 Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation…

  • Race Mixture and Physical Disharmonies Science Magazine Volume 71, Number 1850 (1930-06-13) pages 603-606 DOI: 10.1126/science.71.1850.603 W. E. Castle (1867-1962) Bussey Institution, Harvard Professor H. S. Jennings in his recent book on “The Biological Basis of Human Nature” devotes a chapter to the subject of race mixture and its consequences. Considering first the purely physical…

  • Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island Science  Magazine Volume 65, Number 1693 (1927-06-10) page x DOI: 10.1126/science.65.1693.0x-s Providing the original stock is sound, inbreeding among human beings results in no deterioration, physical or mental. Nor does mixture of widely differing races produce an inferior type.  Such are the conclusions of Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, ethnologist…

  • Race as a Social Construct in Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes Otolaryngology—Head Neck Surgery Volume 144, Number 3 (March 2011) pages 381-389 DOI: 10.1177/0194599810393884 Maria J. Worsham, PhD Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan George Divine, PhD Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan Rick A.…

  • Letter to the Editor: Alleged Extinction of Mulatto Science Magazine Volume 20, Number 517 (1892-12-30) page 375 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-20.517.375 A few months since an article appeared in a medical journal affirming that the pure mulatto colonies of southern Ohio were dying out after the fourth generation. Can any reader point me to the article in…