Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics
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Stem Cell Donor Matching for Patients of Mixed Race 2011-04-04 21 pages Ted Bergstrom, Aaron and Cherie Raznick Chair of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Rod Garratt, Professor of Econommics University of California, Santa Barbara Damien Sheehan-Connor, Assistant Professor of Economics Wesleyan University The plight of multiracial leukemia patients who are unable to find…
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Mapping Race through Admixture The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society Volume 4, Issue 4 (2008) pages 79-84 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University Mapping Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium (MALD) is a technology that separates genomic ancestral lineages to identify disease genes. In the…
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A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 61, Number 4 (2006) pages 456-491 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrl003 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia This article explores the political and intellectual context of a controversy arising from a proposal made…
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The relationship between binge eating and weight status on depression, anxiety, and body image among a diverse college sample: A focus on Bi/Multiracial women Eating Behaviors Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2010 Pages 18-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2009.08.003 Valentina Ivezaj Eastern Michigan University Karen K. Saules Eastern Michigan University Flora Hoodin Eastern Michigan University Kevin Alschuler Eastern…
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Theatrical Medicine: Aboriginal performance, ritual and commemoration The Medicine Project 2008-03-25 Michelle La Flamme Dr. Michelle La Flamme is an Afro-NDN performer, activist and educator who completed a Ph.D. at UBC [University of British Columbia] in English literature (May 2006). In her other life, she is an avid performer and has worked in film and…
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Is it good medical practice for physicians to “eyeball” a patient’s race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race?