Day: October 29, 2012

  • Race in a Bottle Scientific American Volume 297 (January 1, 2007) pages 40-45 Jonathan D. Kahn, Professor of Law Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science. This article focuses on the drug, BiDil – a drug…

  • Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The ques­tion posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is run­ning for the Sen­ate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native Ameri­can” at var­i­ous…

  • Obama struggles to balance African Americans’ hopes with country’s as a whole The Washington Post 2012-10-28 Peter Wallsten Barack Obama stood at the lectern, trying to figure out what to say — or at least how to say it. He started speaking, then stopped, then started again, each time searching for the right tone, the…

  • “Incestuous Sheets” and “Adulterate Beasts”: Incest and Miscegenation in Early Modern Drama University of Michigan 2011 199 pages Kentston D. Bauman A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Language and Literature) This dissertation explores the centrality of incest and miscegenation in the early modern cultural…

  • Research Matters June 27, 2012 USC Dornsife Research Office Weekly Updates University of Southern California 2012-06-27 Stephan Haas, Vice Dean of Research Awards This information is based upon official award data from the Contracts and Grants office. It is provided to make you aware of the interesting research that is being conducted by our colleagues…

  • Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape Chicago Tribune 2012-10-29 Dawn Turner Trice Laura Kina, 39, is half Asian-American and half white. Her husband is Jewish, and her stepdaughter is half Hispanic. Her family, including her fair-skinned, blue-eyed biological daughter, lives near Devon Avenue in the heart of Chicago’s Indian and Pakistani community. Kina, who’s…