Month: July 2010

  • Gabriela Meets Olodum: Paradoxes of Hybridity, Racial Identity, and Black Consciousness in Contemporary Brazil Research in African Literatures Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 181-193 E-ISSN: 1527-2044 Print ISSN: 0034-5210 DOI: 10.1353/ral.2007.0007 Russell G. Hamilton, Emeritus Professor of Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures Vanderbilt University With respect to the first part of this…

  • 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 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,…

  • The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice New England Journal of Medicine 2003-03-20 Volume 348, Number 12 pages 1170-1175 Esteban González Burchard, M.D. Elad Ziv, M.D. Natasha Coyle, Ph.D. Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D. Hua Tang, Ph.D. Andrew J. Karter, Ph.D. Joanna L. Mountain, Ph.D. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. Dean…

  • 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 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…

  • Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand Paper Presented to Te Oru Rangahau Maori Research and Development Conference 1998-07-07 through 1998-07-09 Massey University 7 pages Paul Meredith (Ngati Kaputuhi/Pakeha), Research Fellow Te Matahauariki Institute University of Waikato, New Zealand This brief paper joins a growing call for a reconceptualisation of bicultural…

  • Claiming the (n)either/(n)or of ‘third space’: (re)presenting hybrid identity and the embodiment of mixed race Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 25, Issue 1 (April 2004) pages 75 – 85 DOI: 10.1080/07256860410001687036 Torika Bolatagici, Associate Lecturer School of Communication & Creative Arts Deakin University, Melbourne, Austrailia As a multiracial artist, I am interested in how people…

  • Triracial isolates represent some two hundred communities scattered throughout the eastern United States, particularly in the southeast, of varying combinations and degrees of European American, Native American, and African American descent. The triracial isolates are known by a wide variety of names. New York is the home of the Van Guilders, the Clappers, the Shinnecock,…

  • The more things change, the more they stay the same Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Stanford University Last week, we inaugurated our first African American president, and coincidentally our first mixed race president, and our…