Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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: Politics/Public Policy
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Blood and stories: how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 303-333 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020064 Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and Women’s Studies Duke University In 2003 Howard University announced its intention to create a databank of the DNA of…
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Triangular Mirrors and Moving Colonialisms Etnográfica Volume 6, Number 1 (2002) pages 127-140 Anani Dzidzienyo, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Brown University Though there does not exist an undifferentiated colonialism category because of specificities relating to historical time conjunctions, the interfacing of such conjunctions with metropolitan projects, and the modalities…
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Why genes don’t count (for racial differences in health) American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1699-1702 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1699 Alan H. Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts There is a paradoxical relationship between “race” and genetics. Whereas genetic data were first used to prove the validity of race,…
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Twenty years ago it appeared that mainstream science finally was abandoning the concept of biological human races. From 18th century typologists to 20th century eugenicists, scientists have always been instrumental in justifying the myth that the human species is naturally divided by race.
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A race-based detour to personalized medicine Canadian Medical Association Journal Volume 184, Number 7 (2012-03-12) DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-4133 Roger Collier, News Staff Few experts in medical genetics would argue that June 23, 2005 wasn’t an important day. Consensus on whether it was a good or bad day is another matter. Some claim a major step on…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment The New York Times 2012-05-04 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University If you are 1/32 Cherokee and your grandfather has high cheekbones, does that make you Native American? It depends. Last Friday, Republicans in Massachusetts questioned the racial ancestry of Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate. Her opponent,…