Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Month: October 2012
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Race has become a prominent focus for human biotechnology. Despite often good intentions, genetic technologies are being applied in a manner that may provide new justification for thinking about racial difference and racial disparities in biological terms—as if social categories of race reflect natural or inherent group differences.
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CUNY DSI Monograph Documents Dominican Heritage of First Settler The City University of New York City College 2012-10-04 Juan Rodríguez, native of Santo Domingo, comes to New York in 1613 and stays when his ship sails to Holland The first non-native to live in what is now New York City was a black or mixed…
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Race-Based Medicine: Déjà Vu All Over Again? Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2012-09-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Race-based medicine has been one of the more contentious issues in pharmaceutical research and development over…
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Deep Roots and Tangled Branches The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-02-03 Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Also Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge New York University People who know their biological parents and grandparents typically take the information for granted.…
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White persons and Malayans are forbidden to intermarry and both are forbidden to marry Negroes or persons of Negro descent to the third generation. The statutory mode of expression to cover persons of mixed white and Negro blood is an awkward one and makes doubtful just what proportion of Negro blood will disqualify one from…
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Slooooooow Sales for BiDil® Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2006-10-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that sales for BiDil®—the first drug to receive FDAapproval to treat a specific race—are…
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Ian Thomson: Jamaica was modern before Britain The Independent London, England 2012-10-04 Miguel Cullen To mark Black History Month the author of “Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica” talks to Miguel Cullen about the ways Jamaica is punching above its weight Jamaica is a country that exceeds its limitations. For example India’s GDP is 180…
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Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Volume 1: The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies of Engagement Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2011 323 pages Soft cover ISBN: 978-981-4345-25-5 See Volume 1 here. Edited by: Laura Jarnagin, Visiting Professorial Fellow Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore also Associate Professor Emerita in the Division…