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Month: August 2011

  • Op-Ed: Moving Beyond Race-Based Health

    Op-Ed: Moving Beyond Race-Based Health The Herald-Sun Durham, North Carolina 2008-08-22 Susanne Haga, IGSP Scholar, Assistant Research Professor Duke Institute for Genome Science & Policy At a time when genetics research continues to reveal just how similar we all are, it’s frustrating to see the continued reliance on race as a basis to treat individuals…

  • The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry

    The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry Nature News Nature Magazine 2008-11-13 Brendan Maher Charmaine Royal of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy explains the limitations of genetic testing. Ancestry testing is genetics’ most direct and sometimes tempestuous interaction with personal identity. An estimated half-a-million Americans will purchase genetic tests from companies this year…

  • Miscegenation produced Eurasian children that were not European or Asian

    Miscegenation produced Eurasian children that were not European or Asian; they were a people without an identity that had the ability to change the European established racial hierarchy. Christina Firpo mentions that in Vietnam, Eurasians were clearly recognizable as being of French descent. But the French viewed this as a threat to their racial purity…

  • The American Negro and Race Blending

    The American Negro and Race Blending The Sociological Review Volume a2, Issue 4 (October 1909) pages 349–360 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1909.tb01972.x Frances Hoggan The problem of the colour population of America is many-sided. Perhaps the most vital question to be considered is that of the amalgamation of the races: how far it has reached or may reach,…

  • The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool

    The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool The Sociological Review Volume 3, Issue 1 (July 1955) pages 65-75 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1955.tb01045.x Maurice Broody Some of the most urgent social problems of a cosmopolitan seaport city like Liverpool are problems of adjustment between ethnic minorities and the indigenous society into which they have migrated. This adjustment…

  • The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world

    The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world University of Houston, Clear Lake July 2009 180 pages Publication Number: AAT 1471005 ISBN: 9781109355192 Joel G. Carter THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The University of Houston Clear Lake In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF…

  • The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race

    The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race Henry Highland Garnet Edited by Paul Royster University of Nebraska, Lincoln Steam press of J. C. Kneeland and Co. 1848 31 pages The text of this electronic edition is based on the original published at Troy, New York, in 1848. It was…

  • The Fear of Colonial Miscegenation in the British Colonies of Southeast Asia

    Between 1820 and 1923, European and American travelogue writers in the Southeast Asian British Colonies looked down upon Europeans participating in miscegenation with local women. They felt that it was a “barbaric” institution, and if Europeans participated in miscegenation, they were destroying the racial hierarchy that had been established during colonialism.

  • Transcultural Transformation: African American and Native American Relations

    Transcultural Transformation: African American and Native American Relations University of Nebraska November 2009 139 pages Barbara S. Tracy A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The intersected lives of African Americans and Native Americans result…

  • The Film You Didn’t See – Who’s the Alien, Cowboy?

    The Film You Didn’t See – Who’s the Alien, Cowboy? Cultural Weekly 2011-08-25 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ulli K. Ryder, Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University Chances are you didn’t see Cowboys and Aliens. The film won’t get to $100 million box office in…