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  • Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now

    Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now Runnymede Trust June 2010 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Information from the UK Census indicates that parents of…

  • Mixed Race Britain: Where Next?

    Mixed Race Britain: Where Next? Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent Journalist My two books on mixed race Britons, Colour of Love (1992) and Mixed Feelings (2001) were among the first non-academic explorations of racial mixing in Britain. In the nine years between the two publications, awareness had grown of the fast rising number of…

  • Editorial: “Race Correction” in Pulmonary-Function Testing

    Editorial: “Race Correction” in Pulmonary-Function Testing New England Journal of Medicine 2010-07-07 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1005902 Paul D. Scanlon, M.D. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota Mark D. Shriver, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University, University Park (M.D.S.) Tests of pulmonary function and radiographic imaging of the chest are the two…

  • Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions

    Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions New England Journal of Medicine 2010-07-07 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0907897 Rajesh Kumar, M.D. Max A. Seibold, Ph.D. Melinda C. Aldrich, Ph.D., M.P.H. L. Keoki Williams, M.D., M.P.H. Alex P. Reiner, M.D. Laura Colangelo, M.S. Joshua Galanter, M.D. Christopher Gignoux, M.S. Donglei Hu, Ph.D. Saunak Sen, Ph.D. Shweta Choudhry, Ph.D. Edward L. Peterson,…

  • Genetic screening may redefine medical treatments

    Genetic screening may redefine medical treatments KGO-TV San Francisco, California 2010-07-07 Carolyn Johnson, Co-Anchor KGO-TV SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — New research out of UCSF [University of California, San Francisco] shows that tracking a patient’s genetic ancestry can improve the diagnosis of asthma and other lung diseases. The results could have broader implications for other diseases…

  • Genetic ancestry data improve diagnosis in asthma and lung disease

    Genetic ancestry data improve diagnosis in asthma and lung disease University of California, San Fransisco News Release 2010-07-07 Kristen Bole Released Jointly by UCSF and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, and National Jewish Health Americans with lung disease may face a far greater level of lung damage than either they or…

  • Research Project on Mixed Race Identity

    Research Project on Mixed Race Identity Are you of a mixed racial background? Do you identify as ‘mixed’ or ‘mixed race’? Do you identify with a mixed racial identity? This project is being conducted for a Master’s thesis in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. The purpose of the project is to…

  • Seeking Race Transcenders to Participate in Racial Identity Study

    Seeking Race Transcenders to Participate in Racial Identity Study Carlos Hoyt, a Ph.D. student at Simmons College in Boston, is currently seeking individuals who are commonly identified as black or African American (including biracial or black-multiethnic), but who do not define themselves according to the social construct of race. Hoyt’s study will give race transcenders the…

  • Danbury’s multiracial students to star in film

    Danbury’s multiracial students to star in film The Connecticut Post 2010-04-02 Eileen FitzGerald, Staff Writer Danbury, Connecticut—The three boys wore jeans and long-sleeve T-shirts. The two girls each wore a dozen bracelets and necklaces. They looked like typical students in the library media center at Broadview Middle School. It was their differences, however, that brought…

  • Meeting the Needs of Multi/Biracial Children in School and at Home

    Meeting the Needs of Multi/Biracial Children in School and at Home University of Wisconsin, Stout December 2009 62 pages Brea Cunico A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree in Guidance and Counseling In an extension of research on marginalized populations, the present study identified and explored…