Month: May 2012

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007 250 pages Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Submitted to the Program in Science, Technology and Society In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the…

  • A Racialized Medical Genomics: Shiny, Bright and Wrong RACE-The Power of an Illusion July 2005 Robert Wallace, Postdoctoral Fellow Public Health Phylogeography Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Irvine Armand Marie Leroi announces in his Times op-ed that race is biologically real (New York Times, March 14, 2005). The crusty trope that…

  • “Racially-Tailored” Medicine Unraveled American University Law Review Volume 55, Number 2 (December 2005) pages 395-452 Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center Case Western Reserve University School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. “Race-Based” Research and Therapeutic Practices A. The Story of BiDil B. “Race-Based” Research…

  • Runnymede film nominated for Limelight Award Runnymede Trust 2012-05-10 Clench, a Runnymede short film written and directed by Riffat Ahmed, has been nominated in the Best Drama category at this year’s Limelight Film Awards, to be held on 14 June 2012.   Made as part of the Generation 3.0 project, the film tells the story…

  • The Vanishing American Negro The American Mercury Volume LXIV, Number 278 (February 1947) pages 133-139 Ralph Linton (1893-1953), Professor of Anthropolgy Yale University In the question period following any talk on minority problems, someone invariably brings up the query, “What do anthropologists consider to be the long range solution of the Negro problem?” Though I…

  • The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justice The News-Times Danbury, Connecticut 2010-02-24 Antoinette Bosco Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency. But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before…

  • Ethnographic Pictorialism: Caroline Gurrey’s Hawaiian Types at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 172-183 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654943 Heather Waldroup, Associate Professor of Art History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina In 1909, a series of photographs by Honolulu portraitist Caroline Gurrey was exhibited at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in…

  • Is the American Negro Becoming Lighter? An Analysis of the Sociological and Biological Trends American Sociological Review Volume 13, Number 4 (August, 1948) pages 437-443 William M. Kephart, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia There is a belief in some quarters that there is a biological solution to the Negro problem; that is, in…

  • The “Passing” Question Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 9, Number 4 (4th Quarter 1948) pages 336-340 Wm. M. Kephart, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia How many Negroes are ‘passing‘ every year in the United  States?” “What percentage of the White population possesses some Negro blood?” “In time, will all the Negroes ‘pass’?” “What proportion of…

  • Modern Love: Navigating New Trenches After a Breakup The New York Times 2012-05-18 Kate McGovern Cambridge, Massachusetts Some years ago, when I was living in Britain, I received an e-mail from a college friend who had recently announced her first pregnancy. “We have become good friends with a black/white couple,” she wrote. “They have a…