Month: January 2013

  • Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies: Call For Papers – March 1, 2013   “What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?”   Papers that were presented at the November 1-4, 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference “What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?” are invited for revision and submission for the second issue of JCMRS. We also…

  • “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity and the Social Construction of Race in the U.S. University of North Texas May 2012 165 pages Starita Smith Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation is a qualitative study of racially ambiguous people and their life experiences. Racially ambiguous people are individuals who are frequently…

  • A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (review) Civil War History Volume 52, Number 2, June 2006 pages 180-182 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2006.0034 Michael A. Morrison, Associate Professor of History Purdue University A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic. By Bruce Dain. (Cambridge: Harvard University…

  • A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic Harvard University Press February 2003 334 pages 6 x 9-15/16 inches Hardcove ISBN: 9780674009462 Bruce Dain, Associate Professor of History University of Utah The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated…

  • Funding Race as Biology: The Relevance of “Race” in Medical Research Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Volume 12, Issue 2 (Spring 2011) pages 571-618 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Note from Steven F.…

  • From Bang to Whimper: A Heart Drug’s Story The New York Times 2012-12-24 Abigail Zuger, M.D. Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age. Columbia University Press, December 2012, 336 pages. On June 23, 2005, American medicine managed to take a small step forward and a…

  • Why More Races Could Appear on the 2020 Census PolicyMic 2013-01-07 Justine Gonzalez The U.S. Census is re-evaluating how they measure race for the 2020 Census. Our country is rapidly diversifying, both culturally and racially, which makes the Census’ job that much more critical and complicated. As the 2010 Census has shown, Latinos, who often…

  • Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story University of Minnesota Press 2010 272 pages 23 b&w plates, 6 x 9 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6678-2 George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer,…

  • Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico UCLA Today Faculty and Staff News 2010-12-06 Letisia Marquez Growing up in a predominantly white Los Angeles County suburb, Robert Chao Romero, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, learned to hide his Chinese background.   The son of a Chinese…