Month: July 2010

  • From Eugenics to Genomics: A History of the Race Concept and Its Impact on Contemporary Health Disparities American Public Health Association Annual Meeting San Diego, California 2008 Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention Drexel University At the dawn of the 21st century, the idea of race—the belief that the…

  • What can DNA tell us about our genetic lineage, and where does it fall short? What explains Vy Higgensen’s multiple results from different testing sites? Flawed methodology? Partial truths hyped as definitive findings? Did the testing companies use different methods or deploy different reference populations – or both?

  • A Brief History of Census “Race” Knol: A unit of knowledge 2010-06-08 4 illustrations Frank W. Sweet, Independent Research Historian The U.S. federal census was founded to apportion congressional representation among the states. In order to achieve additional goals, it switched in 1850 from recording households in summary, to recording individuals in detail. It became…

  • The mulatta, the bishop, and dances in the Cathedral: race, music, and power relations in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico Black Music Research Journal Volume 26, Number 2 (Fall, 2006) pages 137-164 Noel Allende-Goitía, Professor of Music Universidad Interamericano de Puerto Rico, San Germán At the beginning of the twentieth century, Cayetano Coll y Toste, a Puerto…

  • How Do Forced-Choice Dilemmas Affect Multiracial People? The Role of Identity Autonomy and Public Regard in Depressive Symptoms Journal of Applied Social Psychology Volume 40 Issue 7 Pages 1657 – 1677 Published Online: 2010-07-09 DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00634.x Diana T. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology Rutgers University The present study reports on correlational data gathered from…

  • Essentialist theory of ‘hybrids’: from animal kinds to ethnic categories and race Asian Journal of Social Psychology Early View (Articles online in advance of print) Published Online: 2010-07-20 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01315.x Wolfgang Wagner Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Department of Social Psychology and Methodology, University of the Basque Country, San…

  • mix-d™: Walsall Youth Conference: Debate, consultation and fact-find about the UK’s fastest growing population. mix-d™: Tuesday, 2010-07-13 County Inn, Walsall View all of the photographs from the conference here. Photographs courtesy of Cheshire based photographer Rick Milnes.

  • Hybrid Navigator Small Axe Number 32 (Volume 14, Number 2), June 2010 pages 150-159 E-ISSN: 1534-6714 Print ISSN: 0799-0537 Satch Hoyt, Artist/Sculptor I was born in London to an Afro-Jamaican father and a white English mother in the late 1950s. It was, to say the least, a lonely terra nova, a traumatic neocolonial, cross-cultural terrain,…

  • My Coloured Thoughts: Last of the Mohicans and Perceptions of Mixed Race Peoples Originally presented at the 1999 Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium on “Expanding ‘Literature(s)’, Challenging Boundaries” Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 1999-03-12 through 1999-03-14 Zoë Ludski Ryerson Polytechnic University But alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point…

  • Lost in the Middle: Growing up Across Racial & Cultural Divides The Washington Post 1998-05-17 Malcolm Gladwell His parents conqured racial difference with dignity and relative ease.  But race became a more complicated question for their son. One summer Saturday, when I was growing up, my father piled my brothers and me into the family…