Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Founding Families: Power and Authority of Mixed French and Native Lineages In Eighteenth Century Detroit Yale University May 2011 365 pages Publication Number: AAT 3467517 ISBN: 9781124807232 Karen L. Marrero A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosphy This dissertation highlights…

  • Mulattoes, octoroons and quadroons are much more susceptible to the ravages of syphilis and gonorrhea than are their more deeply tinted brethren. Negroes of all shades are extremely susceptible to tuberculosis, and also to measles. In my experience extending over a period of nearly twenty years, I do not recall having seen a case of…

  • Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Why and How? The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 292, Number 13 (2004) pages 1612-1614 DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.13.1612 Margaret A. Winker, MD, Deputy Editor and Online Editor Journal of the American Medical Association Race and enthnicity are constantly evolving concepts, deceptively easy to measure and used ubiquitously in the biomedical literature,…

  • In the South, regardless of hair-splitting dictionary or legal definitions, it is customary to regard as negro any person who is known to have any negro blood in his veins; this despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Louisiana has lately handed down a decision restricting the term “negro” to those having a greater…

  • Science: Savants TIME Magazine 1924-08-18 Women’s barber shops call themselves beauty parlors. Drug stores call themselves ice cream parlors. Clerks call themselves salesmen. Politicians call themselves statesmen. Flappers call themselves young ladies. But scientists call themselves scientists, and only newspapers call them savants. But the word “savants” has been spread in the headlines of newspapers…

  • Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races Human Biology Volume 75, Number 4, August 2003 pages 449-471 Rich Kittles, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Illinois, Chicago Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Sewall Wright’s population structure statistic, FST, measured among samples of world…

  • British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation New Formations Number 60 (2007) pages 66-78 Lucy Bland, Professor of Social and Cultural History Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom In 1937 a polemic entitled Half-Caste was published, heralding ‘the richness of hybrid potentiality’. Written by a self-defined Eurasian called Cedric Dover its opening…

  • The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics MIT Press January 2009 368 pages 7 x 9, 35 illus. Paper ISBN-10: 0-262-58275-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-262-58275-9 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies (and Dean of Harvard College)…

  • Genetic Counseling: For children of mixed racial ancestry Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 8, Issue 3, 1961 pages 157-163 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1961.9987478 Sheldon C. Reed, Director Dight Institute for Human Genetics University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Esther B. Nordlie Dight Institute for Human Genetics University of Minnesota, Minneapolis INTRODUCTION The editors of this journal have been interested…

  • Black and white twins The Guardian 2011-09-23 Joanna Moorhead James and Daniel are twins. What sets them apart is that one is white and one is black—and the differences don’t end there, as Joanna Moorhead discovers The two teenage boys sitting on the sofa opposite are different in almost every way. On the left is…