Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Is It Time To Stop Using Race In Medical Research? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-02-05 Angus Chen Genetics researchers often discover certain snips and pieces of the human genome that are important for health and development, such as the genetic mutations that cause cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia. And scientists…

  • Taking race out of human genetics Science Volume 351, Issue 6273 (2016-02-05) pages 564-565 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4951 Michael Yudell, Associate Professor Dornsife School of Public Health Department of Community Health and Prevention Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander…

  • Bridging the Divide: My Life Rutgers University Press 2006-11-09 352 pages 16, 5.75 x 8.75 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3905-8 Senator Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts-a state…

  • How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts University of California Press January 2014 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520280076 Paperback ISBN: 9780520280083 Adbobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520957190 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520957190 Natalia Molina, Associate Dean for Faculty Equity, Division of Arts; Humanities and Associate Professor of History and…

  • Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2016-02-01, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Jonathan Xavier Inda, Chair and Professor of Latino/a…

  • Why Race Policy must include Multiracial Americans Policy Press Blog at the University of Bristol 2016-01-27 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Today’s guest blog by Kathleen Odell Korgen, whose book Race policy and multi-racial Americans published this month, examines the much overlooked issue of including multiracial Americans in…

  • “Race Policy and Multiracial Americans” is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans.

  • Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination? Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2015 Speaker Series presents: “Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination?” University of Pittsburgh 2015-12-10 Tanya Hernandez, Professor of Law Fordham University Welcome by: Larry Davis, Dean, Donald M. Henderson Professor, and Director Center for Race and Social…

  • Law is still black & white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says University Times: The Faculty & Staff Newspaper Since 1968 University of Pittsburgh 2016-01-07 Marty Levine Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence…

  • Review ‘Democracy in Black’ is a bracing call to action for African Americans The Los Angeles Times 2016-01-21 Kiese Laymon, Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (New York: Crown, 2016) “We laud our democratic virtues to others and represent…