Month: May 2011

  • Editorial: Implications of racial distinctions for body composition and its diagnostic assessment American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Volume 71, Number 6 (June 2000) pages 1387-1389 Print ISSN: 0002-9165; Online ISSN: 1938-3207 Noel W. Solomons, Scientific Director and co-Founder Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) Shiriki Kumanyika, Professor of Epidemiology University of…

  • Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional study BMC Public Health Volume 2, Number 1 (2002-01-16) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-2-1 5 pages Sandra C. Fuchs Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Sylvia M. Guimarães Department of Internal Medicine,…

  • Y-STR diversity and ethnic admixture in White and Mulatto Brazilian population samples Genetics and Molecular Biology (Former title: Brazilian Journal of Genetics) Volume 29, Number 4 (São Paulo  2006) pages 605-607 DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572006000400004 ISSN 1415-4757 Luzitano Brandão Ferreira Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil…

  • Racial inequalities and perinatal health in the southeast region of Brazil Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research Volume 40, Number 9 (September 2007) pages 1187-1194 DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006005000144 ISSN 1678-4510 L. M. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, MA, Brasil R. A. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do…

  • Recasting the Real: Reconstructivism: A Response to Hybridity in Contemporary Art Methodologies The University of Alabama McNair Journal The McNair Scholars Program Volume 7 (Spring 2007) pages 65-84 Suzanah Moorer While many artists are taking an interdisciplinary approach to art making, currently there is not a critical consensus on the direction and significance of hybrid…

  • Hybridity gets fashionable Andréia Azevedo Soares LabLit.com: the culture of science fiction & fact 2009-10-24 The novel White Teeth offers a different perspective on science Even if you haven’t read the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith, you probably remember it—unless you were lying comatose at the beginning of this century. White Teeth was considered…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard] American Studies Volume 50, No. 1/2: Spring/Summer 2009 pages 125-127 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. One of the major developments in ethnic studies over…

  • Speaking About Southern Unionists… and Mixed-Race People: A Report and an Announcement Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-05-07 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I just returned from a wonderful visit to Leiden University in the Netherlands, where I spoke generally about Civil War Southern Unionists and specifically…

  • When examining the issue of multiracial identity, it is important to understand the legacy of white supremacy.  It is a theory and practice based on the irrational opinion that white Europeans (mainly Anglo-Saxon and Northern European origin) are inherently superior to non-Anglo-Saxon origin peoples—particularly those of African and Asian ancestry.  Moreover, it is also a theory…

  • New Guinea: Racial Identity and Inclusion in the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indian Communities of New York New York History Volume 90, Number 3 (Summer 2009) 23 paragraphs Christopher Geherin In 1818 the Stockbridge Indians initiated a series of land sales to the state of New York in order to finance the relocation of the tribe…