Category: Media Archive

  • Creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and degeneracy: A critique of selected histories of Sierra Leone and South Africa Current Sociology Volume 59, Number 5 (September 2011) pages 635-654 DOI: 10.1177/0011392111408678 Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town This work examines the nexus between creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and discourses of degeneration. It focuses on two…

  • Blacks, the white elite, and the politics of nation building: Inter and intraracial relationships in “Cecilia Valdes” and “O Mulato” Tulane University May 2006 274 pages Publication Number: AAT 3275113 ISBN: 9780549253327 Geoffrey Scott Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted on the Twenty-Sixth day of May 2006 to the Department of Spanish and Portugues in Partial Fulfillment…

  • Mismatched racial identities, colourism, and health in Toronto and Vancouver Social Science & Medicine Volume 73, Issue 8, October 2011 pages 1152–1162 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.030 Gerry Veenstra, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Using original telephone survey data collected from adult residents of Toronto (n=685) and Vancouver (n=814) in 2009, I investigate associations between…

  • Loudoun Square: A Community Survey-I (An Aspect of Race Relations in English Society) The Sociological Review Volume a34, Issue 1-2 (January 1942) pages 12–33 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1942.tb02744.x K. L. Little Recent research in North America has brought more clearly to light certain facets of urban and contemporary social life, more particularly in the shape of the…

  • Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians Parallax Volume 13, Number 2 (2007) pages 6-20 DOI: 10.1080/13534640701267123 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Not so long ago, the question ol the racial identity of the Ancient Egyptians passed beyond the narrow…

  • Race and Genomics. Old Wine in New Bottles? Documents from a Transdisciplinary Discussion NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Volume 16, Number 3 (August 2008) pages 363-386 DOI 10.1007/S00048-008-0301-6 Staffan Müller-Wille ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society University of Exeter Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin, Germany From July 25 to 29,…

  • Studied in race crossing VI. The Indian remnants in Eastern Cuba Genetica Volume 27, Number 1 (1954) pages 65-96 DOI: 10.1007/BF01664155 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University A preliminary account was given at the 30th International Americanist Congress, Cambridge, England, August, 1952. Received for publication July 27, 1953 This paper is in one…

  • A Mystery of  a People WUNC 91.5, Chapel Hill The State of Things North Carolina Public Radio 2011-07-28 Isaac-davy Aronson, Host Questions of racial identity and cultural heritage have long surrounded a group of Appalachians called the Melungeons. In recent years, curiosities have been piqued about this loosely connected group of people, spawning DNA testing,…

  • Op-Ed: Moving Beyond Race-Based Health The Herald-Sun Durham, North Carolina 2008-08-22 Susanne Haga, IGSP Scholar, Assistant Research Professor Duke Institute for Genome Science & Policy At a time when genetics research continues to reveal just how similar we all are, it’s frustrating to see the continued reliance on race as a basis to treat individuals…

  • The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry Nature News Nature Magazine 2008-11-13 Brendan Maher Charmaine Royal of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy explains the limitations of genetic testing. Ancestry testing is genetics’ most direct and sometimes tempestuous interaction with personal identity. An estimated half-a-million Americans will purchase genetic tests from companies this year…