Mixed Race Studies

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  • The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry

    The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry Nature News Nature Magazine 2008-11-13 Brendan Maher Charmaine Royal of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy explains the limitations of genetic testing. Ancestry testing is genetics’ most direct and sometimes tempestuous interaction with personal identity. An estimated half-a-million Americans will purchase genetic tests from companies this year…

  • Science must not invent new myths about race

    Science must not invent new myths about race London Evening Standard 2009-11-16 Lindsay Johns Science and race have never been easy bedfellows. Since Victorian times, when Western scientific advancement was used as an intellectual and moral justification for European colonial expansion, science or pseudo-science has occupied an uncomfortable place in our understanding of race. Yet…

  • The Effects of Race Intermingling

    Defining race in this sense of elementary species we have to consider our problem: What are the results of race intermingling, or miscegenation?

  • The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine

    The pernicious propaganda relating to the Nordic doctrine before, during, and since the war is the excuse for this book. From the closing years of the last century to the outbreak of the Great War there was in Germany a rising tide of adulation of the blond dolichocephal as the embodiment of all that was…

  • Skin Colour: Does it Matter in New Zealand?

    Skin Colour: Does it Matter in New Zealand? Policy Quarterly (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) Volume 4, Number 1 (2008) pages 18-25 Paul Callister, Senior Research Fellow Institute of Policy Studies Victoria University of Wellington Introduction Pick up any official New Zealand publication which includes photographs representing the population and it is…

  • Mixed Race Season

    Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…

  • Embodying race: gender, sex, and the sciences of difference, 1830-1934

    Embodying race: gender, sex, and the sciences of difference, 1830-1934 Rutgers University, New Brunswick May 2008 356 pages Melissa Norelle Stein, Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Race and Ethnicity Rutgers University A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…

  • The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Substance Use and Negative Activity Involvement among Monoracial and Multiracial Adolescents of the Southwest

    The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Substance Use and Negative Activity Involvement among Monoracial and Multiracial Adolescents of the Southwest Journal of Drug Education Volume 39, Number 2 (2009) Pages 195-210 Kelly Faye Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix Craig W. LeCroy, Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix…

  • Racial Taxonomy in Genomics

    Racial Taxonomy in Genomics Social Science & Medicine Volume 73, Issue 7, October 2011 pages 1019–1027 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.003 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University This article examines the reflexive, biosocial nature of genomic meaning making around race, drawing on discourse analysis of 732 articles…

  • Serious problems with using race/ethnicity as a variable in genetics research…

    A number of serious problems with using race/ethnicity as a variable in genetics research have emerged in our analysis of our interviews with this group of genetic scientists. At the most basic level, the common racial/ethnic classifications they routinely use are of questionable value for delineating genetically related groups. The ubiquitous OMB categories in fact…