Tag: Brown University

  • Sequencing the Trellis: The Production of Race in the New Human Genomics Brown University December 2003 185 pages Brady Dunklee, Executive Director ATRAVES US In partial completion of the requirements for honors. Note on the Title: “Trellis” refers to an analogy that NHGRI director Francis Collins uses to describe race and human evolution, emphasizing mixture…

  • Black Mexico: Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Race and Nation Brown University May 2009 268 pages Marisela Jiménez Ramos A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. On January 31, 2006, the Associated Press reported that while remodeling…

  • Multiracial Identity Week at Brown University Multiracial Identity Week Brown Univeristy 2010-10-24 through 2010-10-31 Featured Event: Convocation with Rebecca Walker Rebecca Walker, one of Time magazine’s 50 most influential leaders of her generation, will give the opening address for the Third World Center’s Multiracial Identity Week. The author of three anthologies and two memoirs, including…

  • AMCV 1611J – Sex, Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations Brown University Fall 2010 Ulli K. Ryder This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in North America. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring literary, anthropological, and historical writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of…