Category: Media Archive

  • Race-Based Medicine: Déjà Vu All Over Again? Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2012-09-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Race-based medicine has been one of the more contentious issues in pharmaceutical research and development over…

  • Deep Roots and Tangled Branches The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-02-03 Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Also Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge New York University People who know their biological parents and grandparents typically take the information for granted.…

  • Racial Labels Have Limited Use In Personalizing Medicine Shots: NPR’s Health Blog 2011-05-09 Eliza Barclay For all the fanfare around personalized medicine, the idea has been fairly slow to take off. Boosters have said if doctors had a patient’s DNA information it would be revolutionary: They could look for genetic risk of certain diseases or…

  • Slooooooow Sales for BiDil® Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2006-10-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that sales for BiDil®—the first drug to receive FDAapproval to treat a specific race—are…

  • Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn’t increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as ‘mixed’ actually embodied? “The Biopolitics of Mixing” invites us to reckon with the spectres of pathologization past and present, placing the celebration of mixing beside moral panics over terrorism and trafficking and…

  • Ian Thomson: Jamaica was modern before Britain The Independent London, England 2012-10-04 Miguel Cullen To mark Black History Month the author of “Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica” talks to Miguel Cullen about the ways Jamaica is punching above its weight Jamaica is a country that exceeds its limitations. For example India’s GDP is 180…

  • Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Volume 1: The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies of Engagement Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2011 323 pages Soft cover ISBN: 978-981-4345-25-5 See Volume 1 here. Edited by: Laura Jarnagin, Visiting Professorial Fellow Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore also Associate Professor Emerita in the Division…

  • Individualism, Success, and American Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man African American Review Volume 30, Number 3 (Autumn, 1996)   pages 403-419 Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan The title character in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man embodies the paradox of race and color because he is…

  • Constitutionality Of Miscegenation Statutes: McLaughlin v. Florida Maryland Law Review Volume 25, Issue 1 (1965) pages 41-48 Lee M. Miller The appellants, a Negro man and a white woman, were convicted of violating a Florida statute which proscribed cohabitation between Negro and white persons who are not married to each other. The Florida Supreme Court…

  • 2nd Annual: What Are You? Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations 2012-10-04, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Let’s talk about race and ethnicity, and where we’re from (or where we’re from from); how we express our own multicultural identities, and how others perceive us. Panelists will start the conversation and we hope you’ll join in.…