Category: Media Archive

  • The Problem of Race in Medicine Philosophy of the Social Sciences Volume 31, Number 1 (March 2001) pages 20-39 DOI: 10.1177/004839310103100102 Michael Root, Professor of Philosophy University of Minnesota The biomedical sciences employ race as a descriptive and analytic category. They use race to describe differences in rates of morbidity and mortality and to explain…

  • Portland Chapter Member: Dmae Roberts Asian American Journalists Association 2012-05-28 Doris Truong Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody Award-winning radio artist/writer whose work airs regularly on NPR. Her work is often autobiographical and cross-cultural and is informed by her biracial identity. Her Peabody award-winning documentary, “Mei Mei: A Daughter’s Song,” is a harrowing account of…

  • The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist.

  • Elizabeth Warren: Box-Checking for Fun and Profit Indican Country Today Media Network 2012-05-16 Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University Forrest Carter, Carlos Castaneda, Ward Churchill, Iron Eyes Cody, Jamake HIghwater, Nasdijj, Princess Pale Moon, Andrea and Justine Smith, Mary Thunder, Dhyani Ywahoo. Some of these people have done good work; others have…

  • Race Finished: Book Review American Scientist April-May, 2012 Jan Sapp, Professor of Biology and History York University, Toronto Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle. xviii + 226 pp. Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture. Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. xiv +…

  • In this intriguing and highly accessible book, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are—and are not—and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity.

  • 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 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 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 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…