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  • Racial Taxonomy in Genomics

    Racial Taxonomy in Genomics Social Science & Medicine Volume 73, Issue 7, October 2011 pages 1019–1027 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.003 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University This article examines the reflexive, biosocial nature of genomic meaning making around race, drawing on discourse analysis of 732 articles…

  • Environmental Influences on the Development of Female College Students Who Identify as Multiracial/Biracial-Bisexual/Pansexual

    Environmental Influences on the Development of Female College Students Who Identify as Multiracial/Biracial-Bisexual/Pansexual Journal of College Student Development Volume 52, Number 4 (July/August 2011) pages 440-455 E-ISSN: 1543-3382 Print ISSN: 0897-5264 Alissa R. King, Instructor in Social Sciences Iowa Central Community College Using Renn’s (2000, 2004) ecology of college student development model as a theoretical…

  • GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany

    GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany University of North Carolina Press December 2001 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 13 photos, 1 map, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5375-7 Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state…

  • Serious problems with using race/ethnicity as a variable in genetics research…

    A number of serious problems with using race/ethnicity as a variable in genetics research have emerged in our analysis of our interviews with this group of genetic scientists. At the most basic level, the common racial/ethnic classifications they routinely use are of questionable value for delineating genetically related groups. The ubiquitous OMB categories in fact…

  • Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz

    Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz The New York Review of Books 2010-08-17 Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History Harvard University On a recent trip to Brazil, I struck up a conversation with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, one of Brazil’s finest historians and anthropologists. The talk turned to the two subjects she has…

  • The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930

    The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930 Hill and Wang (an imprint of MacMillan) September 1999 224 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8090-8789-1, ISBN10: 0-8090-8789-8 Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Translated by Leland Guyer, Professor of Hispanic Studies Macalester…

  • Who Is Black in Brazil? A Timely or a False Question in Brazilian Race Relations in the Era of Affirmative Action?

    At the end of 2001 the question of race became part of the Brazilian national agenda under the pressure of black social movements for the establishment of quotas for admission of Afro-Brazilians to public universities.

  • Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic

    Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic Political Psychology Volume 22, Issue 4 (December 2001) pages 827–851 DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00264 Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Yesilernis Pena Mark Sawyer, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science University of California, Los Angeles This study explored…

  • The myth of racial democracy and national identity in Brazil

    The myth of racial democracy and national identity in Brazil The New School, New York, New York February 2006 195 pages Publication Number: AAT 3239941 ISBN: 9780542943904 Leone Campos de Sousa Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…

  • Kept In, Kept Out: The Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937

    Kept In, Kept out : The Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937 Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada November 1996 95 pages Veronica Armstrong Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Latin American Studies Program This thesis examines the roles of historian Gilberto…