Day: July 9, 2010

  • 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…

  • Why Obama is Black Again Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Barack Obama’s inauguration was for so many an awe-inspiring, historic and transnational event: It was full of grand pageantry and a good-humored…

  • Identity in Education: Future of Minority Studies Palgrave Macmillan May 2009 296 pages ISBN: 978-0-230-60917-4, ISBN10: 0-230-60917-1 6 1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 296 pages,  Edited by Susan Sánchez-Casal, Director Tufts University / Skidmore College, Madrid Amie A. Macdonald, Associate Professor of Philosophy John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York This edited…