Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Talking Race w/ Social Critic/Legal Scholar Dorothy Roberts

    Talking Race w/ Social Critic/Legal Scholar Dorothy Roberts Blogtalk Radio Tuesday, 2011-10-11 Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? 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 ITYC is honored to welcome leading legal scholar and social critic…

  • TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia

    TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia BioNews Number 630 (2011-10-24) Anoushka Shepherd Mixed Race Britain: Mixed Britannia, BBC2, 6-20 October 2011, Presented by George Alagiah I am mixed race, and thereby a member the fastest growing ethnic minority in the UK. My British dad met my Sri Lankan mum while travelling in the…

  • Book review: What’s the use of race? Modern governance and the biology of difference

    Book review: What’s the use of race? Modern governance and the biology of difference BioNews Number 634 (2011-11-21) Dr. Rachael Panizzo Decoding the human genome has revealed details of our evolution and patterns of migration across the world. The study of genetic diversity between ethnic groups can help explain the ways in which race influences…

  • Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

    “Genetics and the Unsettled Past” considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history.

  • Examining Population Stratification via Individual Ancestry Estimates versus Self-Reported Race

    Examining Population Stratification via Individual Ancestry Estimates versus Self-Reported Race Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 14, Issue 6 (June 2005) pages 1545-1551 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-04-0832 Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan Cancer Prevention and Control Program H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Ranajit Chakraborty Center for Genome Research, Department of Environmental Health University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,…

  • Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions

    Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions Journal of Health and Social Behavior Volume 51, Number 1 Supplement (November, 2010) pages S15-S27 DOI: 10.1177/0022146510383838 David R. Williams Harvard University Michelle Sternthal Harvard University This article provides an overview of the contribution of sociologists to the study of racial and ethnic inequalities in health in the…

  • Self-Reported Race and Genetic Admixture

    Self-Reported Race and Genetic Admixture The New England Journal of Medicine Number 354, Number 4 (2006-01-26) pages 431-422 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc052515 Moumita Sinha, M.Stat. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Emma K. Larkin, M.H.S. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Robert C. Elston, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Susan Redline, M.D., M.P.H. Case Western…

  • Comparing Genetic Ancestry and Self-Described Race in African Americans Born in the United States and in Africa

    Comparing Genetic Ancestry and Self-Described Race in African Americans Born in the United States and in Africa Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 17, Issue 6 (June 2008) pages 1329-1338 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2505 Rona Yaeger Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Alexa Avila-Bront Department of Medicine College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University Kazeem Abdul Herbert…

  • Patterns of gene flow between Negroes and whites in the US

    Patterns of gene flow between Negroes and whites in the US Journal of Biosocial Science Volume 8, Issue 4 (1976) pages 309-333 DOI: 10.1017/S002193200001083X K. F. Dyer Department of Genetics University of Adelaide, South Australia A review of the pattern and magnitude of negro–white mating in the US is presented from the time of the…

  • Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle

    Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle The Eugenics Review Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1959) pages 93-97 Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research This paper was prepared at the request of the Department of Immigration for discussion by delegates at the Australian Citizenship Convention. The…