Mixed Race Studies

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  • The physical and mental health of multiracial adolescents in the United States

    The physical and mental health of multiracial adolescents in the United States University of Pennsylvania 2007 101 pages ISBN: 9780549117445 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania A dissertation in Demographic Presented to Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy…

  • Biological and Social Consequences of Race-Crossing

    Biological and Social Consequences of Race-Crossing American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (April/June 1926) pages 145–156 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330090212 W. E. Castle (1867-1962) Bussey Institution, Harvard University What constitute the essential differences between human races seems to be a question difficult for anthropologists to agree upon but from a biologist’s point of view…

  • Black, White and Other… Worldwide

    Black, White and Other… Worldwide The Huffington Post 2010-07-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept. According to the Association of Multiethnic Americans and Project RACE, the definition of…

  • From Eugenics to Genomics: A History of the Race Concept and Its Impact on Contemporary Health Disparities

    From Eugenics to Genomics: A History of the Race Concept and Its Impact on Contemporary Health Disparities American Public Health Association Annual Meeting San Diego, California 2008 Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention Drexel University At the dawn of the 21st century, the idea of race—the belief that the…

  • Ancestry Testing and DNA: Uses, Limits – and Caveat Emptor

    What can DNA tell us about our genetic lineage, and where does it fall short? What explains Vy Higgensen’s multiple results from different testing sites? Flawed methodology? Partial truths hyped as definitive findings? Did the testing companies use different methods or deploy different reference populations – or both?

  • Essentialist theory of ‘hybrids’: from animal kinds to ethnic categories and race

    Essentialist theory of ‘hybrids’: from animal kinds to ethnic categories and race Asian Journal of Social Psychology Early View (Articles online in advance of print) Published Online: 2010-07-20 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01315.x Wolfgang Wagner Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Department of Social Psychology and Methodology, University of the Basque Country, San…

  • The Meaning of Race in Healthcare and Research-Part 2: Should Race Be Used in Health Care and Research?

    The Meaning of Race in Healthcare and Research-Part 2: Should Race Be Used in Health Care and Research? Pediatric Nursing Volume 31, Number 4 (July-August 2005) Pages 305-308 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma The state of race today is complex and challenging. An article published in the…

  • Editorial: “Race Correction” in Pulmonary-Function Testing

    Editorial: “Race Correction” in Pulmonary-Function Testing New England Journal of Medicine 2010-07-07 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1005902 Paul D. Scanlon, M.D. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota Mark D. Shriver, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University, University Park (M.D.S.) Tests of pulmonary function and radiographic imaging of the chest are the two…

  • Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions

    Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions New England Journal of Medicine 2010-07-07 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0907897 Rajesh Kumar, M.D. Max A. Seibold, Ph.D. Melinda C. Aldrich, Ph.D., M.P.H. L. Keoki Williams, M.D., M.P.H. Alex P. Reiner, M.D. Laura Colangelo, M.S. Joshua Galanter, M.D. Christopher Gignoux, M.S. Donglei Hu, Ph.D. Saunak Sen, Ph.D. Shweta Choudhry, Ph.D. Edward L. Peterson,…

  • The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice

    The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice New England Journal of Medicine 2003-03-20 Volume 348, Number 12 pages 1170-1175 Esteban González Burchard, M.D. Elad Ziv, M.D. Natasha Coyle, Ph.D. Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D. Hua Tang, Ph.D. Andrew J. Karter, Ph.D. Joanna L. Mountain, Ph.D. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. Dean…