Month: December 2015

  • José Maurício Nunes Garcia Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Last modified: 2015-12-08 José Maurício Nunes Garcia (September 20, 1767 – April 18, 1830) was a Brazilian classical composer, one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas. Born in Rio de Janeiro, son of mulattos, Nunes Garcia lost his father at an early age, and…

  • Going Silent: Augusta Chiwy (B. 1921) The Lives They Lived (2015) The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-16 Ruth Padawer, Adjunct Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York, New York Augusta Chiwy as a nursing student, front row center, at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Leuven, Belgium, in 1943. Credit: Photograph from Martin King She saw so…

  • Catherine Bliss Examines Race and Science in the Post-Genomic World Science of Caring: A Publication of the UCSF School of Nursing University of California, San Francisco December 2015 Diana Austin Catherine Bliss (photo by Elisabeth Fall) When Catherine Bliss, assistant professor in the UC San Francisco School of Nursing Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,…

  • Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2015-03-19 Annina Chirade I was born in Vienna, a place which has historically been a frontier between Eastern and Western Europe. I was primarily brought up in London, a city whose population reflects the reaches of the British Empire. It is also the place…

  • Augusta Chiwy, ‘Forgotten’ Wartime Nurse, Dies at 94 The New York Times 2015-08-25 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent Augusta Chiwy was honored in 2011 for saving Americans during World War II. Credit Eric Lalmand/European Pressphoto Agency Augusta Chiwy, a Belgian nurse whose unsung bravery in saving countless American soldiers wounded in the Battle of the…

  • Without natural genetic boundaries to guide us, human racial categories remain a product of our choices. Those choices are not totally arbitrary, biologically meaningless, or without utility. But because they are choices, we have some leeway in how we define and apply racial categories. We shouldn’t deceive ourselves; how we define race does not just…

  • We evaluated two distinct but not mutually exclusive scenarios for the underlying mechanism that prompted reclassification of individuals as white in the 1920 Puerto Rican census: the movement of individuals across racial boundaries (boundary crossing) and the movement of racial boundaries across individuals (boundary shifting). The underlying boundary dynamics that drove racial reclassification in the…

  • Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Bethesda, Maryland 2015-05-08, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research will host the Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health, on May 8, 2015, at the NIH Campus, as part of the…

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America Oxford University Press 2014-07-07 400 pages 22 b/w line illus., 4 b/w halftones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199337354 Paperback ISBN: 9780199337361 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley The first comprehensive history of census-taking and nation-making in nineteen Latin American…

  • Biological races in humans Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2013 Pages 262–271 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.04.010 Alan R. Templeton, Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology Emeritus Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Highlights Races are highly genetically…