Mixed Race Studies

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Month: March 2013

  • Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina

    Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina Curated by Greg Lunceford and Lanny Silverman 2013-01-26 through 2013-04-27 Opening Reception: Friday, 2013-01-25, 17:30-19:30 CST (Local Time) Chicago Cultural Center The Chicago Rooms 78 E. Washington Street Chicago, Illinois 60638 Shelly Jyoti, Visual Artist, Fashion Designer, Poet, Researcher and Independent Curator Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and…

  • More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order

    In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a…

  • this evidence invites a re-evaluation of the relevance of racial/ethnic labels

    In conclusion, based on a consecutive series of patients from an urban medical center in New York City we demonstrate that a spectrum of mixed ancestry is emerging in the largest US minority groups. While consistent with previous descriptive studies, when viewed from the clinical perspective this evidence invites a re-evaluation of the relevance of…

  • Genetic Background of Patients from a University Medical Center in Manhattan: Implications for Personalized Medicine

    Genetic Background of Patients from a University Medical Center in Manhattan: Implications for Personalized Medicine PLoS ONE: A peer-reviewed, open access journal Volume 6, Number 5 (2011-05-04) 11 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019166 Bamidele O. Tayo Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois Marie Teil Charles R. Bronfman Institute…

  • Race in Contemporary Medicine

    Race in Contemporary Medicine Routledge 2007 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-41365-7 Edited by: Sander L. Gilman With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older…

  • The Privilege of Denial

    The Privilege of Denial all things beautiful 2012-09-19 Alyssa Bacon-Liu I remember doing what’s called a Privilege Walk during my freshman year of college. There was a group of us and we stood in a line and we were given instructions. You had to take steps forward or steps back depending on how you answered…

  • DNA unlocks family secrets of the Chinese juggler, the enigmatic sea-captain and more

    DNA unlocks family secrets of the Chinese juggler, the enigmatic sea-captain and more The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2013-03-23 Carolyn Abraham, Special to The Globe and Mail The birth of my first child made me see the past through a new lens: how it’s never lost, not completely; we carry it with us, in…

  • How Do Whites Perceive Biracial People?

    How Do Whites Perceive Biracial People? Daily Observations: Your source for the latest psychological research Association for Psychological Science 2011-11-10 In case you missed it, the cameras were rolling at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Watch Sabrica Barnett from The City University of New York present her poster research on “Not Fully…

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard’s One Drop

    The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard’s One Drop Mother Jones 2007-11-09 Debra J. Dickerson Suddenly, white people are fascinated by race. Good for them. Good for all of us? If you haven’t read Bliss Broyard’s One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets, you must. No matter how well…

  • One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets

    Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard’s own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to “pass” in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the façade. Now his daughter Bliss tries…