Day: August 29, 2014

  • How Racism Creeps Into Medicine The Atlantic 2014-08-29 Hamza Shaban Washington, D.C. The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference. In 1864, the year before the Civil War ended, a massive study was launched to quantify the bodies of Union soldiers. One key finding in what would become a 613-page…

  • I’m black, my brother’s white … and he’s a cop who shot a black man on duty The Guardian 204-08-25 Zach Stafford, Writer Chicago, Illinois I never thought that my brother would be one of those police officers. He was supposed to be different because of me My white brother loved black people more than…

  • Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 77, Number 3 (September 2014) pages 296-318 DOI: 10.1177/0190272514529439 Jo C. Phelan, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York; New York State…