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  • The Biologistical Construction of Race: ‘Admixture’ Technology and the New Genetic Medicine

    The Biologistical Construction of Race: ‘Admixture’ Technology and the New Genetic Medicine Social Studies of Science Volume 38, Number 5 (2008) pages 695-735 DOI: 10.1177/0306312708090796 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two…

  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture

    Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture Columbia University Press September 2011 304 pages 1 illus; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-15697-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-15696-7 Edited by: Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning; Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine Tufts School of Medicine Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Kathleen…

  • Afro Latinos: everywhere, yet invisible

    Afro Latinos: everywhere, yet invisible Our Weekly 2011-10-06 Cynthia Griffin Struggles with self-image, assimilation mirror Black American experience Last year, during a discussion on increasing the number of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Angel’s centerfielder Torii Hunter in a USA Today interview called the dark-skinned Latino baseball players “imposters” and said they are not…

  • Racist Tendencies Common in Too Many Tribes

    Racist Tendencies Common in Too Many Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-05-23 Cedric Sunray, MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians Alabama, USA Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North Tulsa’s black community, once again bring to light the prejudicial tendencies held…

  • Brazilian Miscegenation: Disease as Social Metaphor

    Brazilian Miscegenation: Disease as Social Metaphor 2012 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association San Francisco, California May 23-26, 2012 23 pages Okezi T. Otovo, Assistant Professor of History University of Vermont Brazilian medicine of the 19th and early 20th centuries had a peculiar cultural relationship to disease. Certain debates consistently recurred as disease experts…

  • Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters

    Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters Racialicious 2012-05-30 Danielle Fuentes Morgan It’s a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It’s almost a universal African American experience, except this time it was asked under different circumstances and for a different reason. “Can I touch your hair?” The photo of this moment, three-years-old at…

  • Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White

    Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 3 pages 354-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811419599 Gene A. Fisher, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Suzanne Model, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cape Verde is an island group off the African coast with a history of slavery.…

  • The Great Seducer: writings on Gilberto Freyre, from 1945 until today (O Grande Sedutor: escritos sobre Gilberto Freyre de 1945 até hoje)

    The Great Seducer: writings on Gilberto Freyre, from 1945 until today (O Grande Sedutor: escritos sobre Gilberto Freyre de 1945 até hoje) Cassará Publishing House (Blog) 2011 724 pages 16 X 23 cm ISBN: 978-85-64892-01-9 Edson Nery da Fonseca, Professor Emeritus University of Brasilia The book is the result of more than sixty years of study…

  • The future of whiteness

    The future of whiteness Salon 2012-05-29 Michael Lind Both Republican and Democratic racial politics are doomed. How culture shifts will reshape American ideas on race The Census Bureau has announced that a majority of new-born infants in the U.S. now belong to categories other than what the U.S. federal government calls “non-Hispanic white.”   While…

  • The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President

    The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-05-24 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “I have always sensed that he [Obama] intuitively understands gays and our predicament—because it so mirrors his own. And he knows how the love and sacrifice of marriage can…