Month: December 2011

  • Examining Population Stratification via Individual Ancestry Estimates versus Self-Reported Race Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 14, Issue 6 (June 2005) pages 1545-1551 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-04-0832 Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan Cancer Prevention and Control Program H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Ranajit Chakraborty Center for Genome Research, Department of Environmental Health University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,…

  • Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions Journal of Health and Social Behavior Volume 51, Number 1 Supplement (November, 2010) pages S15-S27 DOI: 10.1177/0022146510383838 David R. Williams Harvard University Michelle Sternthal Harvard University This article provides an overview of the contribution of sociologists to the study of racial and ethnic inequalities in health in the…

  • Self-Reported Race and Genetic Admixture The New England Journal of Medicine Number 354, Number 4 (2006-01-26) pages 431-422 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc052515 Moumita Sinha, M.Stat. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Emma K. Larkin, M.H.S. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Robert C. Elston, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Susan Redline, M.D., M.P.H. Case Western…

  • Comparing Genetic Ancestry and Self-Described Race in African Americans Born in the United States and in Africa Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 17, Issue 6 (June 2008) pages 1329-1338 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2505 Rona Yaeger Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Alexa Avila-Bront Department of Medicine College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University Kazeem Abdul Herbert…

  • Lansing has highest percentage of people who identify as multiple-race black Lansing State Journal 2011-11-18 Matthew Miller Gianni Risper has a black mother, a white biological father (as opposed to the father who raised him, his mother’s husband) and a way of describing himself that isn’t found on any Census form: Italian-Caribbean-American. “Race is becoming…

  • Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink The Korea Herald 2011-12-07 Kirsty Taylor Things have come a long way since the 1970s when mixed-race Koreans here were spat upon and beaten up for being different. The kids of that time, whose fathers were often foreign soldiers who first came here during the Korean War, used to find…

  • Dominican Republic Country Profile BBC News 2011-12-06 Once ruled by Spain, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a former French colony. OVERVIEW… …The Dominican Republic is inhabited mostly by people of mixed European and African origins. Western influence is seen in the colonial buildings of the capital, Santo Domingo, as well…

  • The Measurement of Negro “Passing” American Journal of Sociology Volume 52, Number 1 (July, 1946) pages 18-22 John H. Burma Older and popular methods of estimating the number of Negroes who pass over into the white group are no longer to be credited. Considerable misconception exists concerning passing itself, which is more frequently temporary and…

  • Patterns of gene flow between Negroes and whites in the US Journal of Biosocial Science Volume 8, Issue 4 (1976) pages 309-333 DOI: 10.1017/S002193200001083X K. F. Dyer Department of Genetics University of Adelaide, South Australia A review of the pattern and magnitude of negro–white mating in the US is presented from the time of the…

  • This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. It was full of Native Americans, other Europeans, and Africans who were there for various reasons.