Day: May 12, 2016

  • Dreams of my father’s dreams of Obama Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2008-11-02 Steven William Thrasher Fifty years ago, when my father, Bill Thrasher, (who was black) and my mother Margaret (who was white) decided to get married in Nebraska, it was illegal for them to do so there. They had to go to the…

  • “Race” and Science The Common Reader: A Journal of The Essay 2016-04-19 Garland Allen, Professor Emeritus of Biology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri A new book traces the complicated legacy of race’s biological conceptions. Michael Yudell; J. Craig Venter (fore.), Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)…

  • Day of Absence 2016: Carolyn Prouty – Race-Based Medicine: What It Is And Why It’s a Problem The Evergreen State College Productions Olympia, Washington 2016-04-06 Carolyn Prouty There is no biological basis for race; it is a socially constructed concept. Nonetheless, the structural nature of racism in society manifests itself in different health outcomes for…

  • Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People by Michel Hogue (review) Labour / Le Travail Issue 77, Spring 2016 pages 297-299 DOI: 10.1353/llt.2016.0039 Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Southern Plains and Borderlands History University of Oklahoma Michel Hogue, Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a…

  • Playing Asian: A Review of AATP’s “Yellow Face” Standford Arts Review 2016-05-05 Loralee Sepsey “You don’t have to live as an Asian every day of your life.” These words, spoken by the character David Henry Hwang (Newton Cheng) in Stanford’s Asian American Theater Project’s production of Hwang’s “unreliable memoir” Yellow Face, ring clear throughout the…