Month: May 2012

  • Finding a Match, and a Mission: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer The New York Times 2012-05-11 Donald G. McNeil, Jr. A month after his 2009 graduation from Yale Law School, Seun Adebiyi learned he had not one but two lethal blood cancers and began an odyssey to find a bone-marrow donor. Mr. Adebiyi, 28, who came…

  • Personalized pharmacogenomics aims to use individual genotypes to direct medical treatment. Unfortunately, the loci relevant for the pharmacokinetics and especially the pharmacodynamics of most drugs are still unknown.

  • Nella Larsen’s Passing: More than Skin Deep McNair Scholars Research Journal Volume 15 pages 71-83 June 2011 Sarah Hicks California State University, Long Beach Nella Larsen’s novella Passing focuses on Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry-Bellew, two female Mulatto characters who pass into white communities; however, two white male minor characters, Hugh Wentworth and John “Jack”…

  • Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos Palgrave Macmillan April 2005 352 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6567-7, ISBN10: 1-4039-6567-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4039-6568-4, ISBN10: 1-4039-6568-4 Anani Dzidzienyo, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Brown University Suzanne Oboler, Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies John Jay College…

  • Triangular Mirrors and Moving Colonialisms Etnográfica Volume 6, Number 1 (2002) pages 127-140 Anani Dzidzienyo, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Brown University Though there does not exist an undifferentiated colonialism category because of specificities relating to historical time conjunctions, the interfacing of such conjunctions with metropolitan projects, and the modalities…

  • Passing for what? Aspects of Identity in Nella Larsen’s Novels Black American Literature Forum Volume 20, Number 1/2 (Spring-Summer, 1986) pages 97-111 Cheryl A. Wall, Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English Rutgers University True, she was attractive, unusual, in an exotic, almost savage way, but she wasn’t one of them. —Quicksand (124)…

  • Heather Curry believes President Barack Obama is denying his white heritage by identifying himself as African-American.

  • As an introduction to this Special Issue of The Journal of Pan African Studies focusing on skin bleaching and global White supremacy, the purpose of this paper is to critically examine the symbolic significance of whiteness, particularly for and among African people, by outlining the history of global White supremacy, both politically and ideologically, discussing…

  • Black No More: Skin Bleaching and the Emergence of New Negro Womanhood Beauty Culture The Journal of Pan African Studies Voume 4, Number 4 (June 2011) pages 97-116 Treva B. Lindsey, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This article examines the usage of skin bleaching products and processes among some…

  • Race Matters: Race, Telenovela Representation, and Discourse in Contemporary Brazil University of Iowa May 2010 193 pages Samantha Nogueira Joyce A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Communication Studies in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa In Race Matters: Race, Telenovela Representation, and Discourse…