Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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A race-based detour to personalized medicine Canadian Medical Association Journal Volume 184, Number 7 (2012-03-12) DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-4133 Roger Collier, News Staff Few experts in medical genetics would argue that June 23, 2005 wasn’t an important day. Consensus on whether it was a good or bad day is another matter. Some claim a major step on…
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Dispensing of Heart Drug Not ‘Black and White’ University of Alabama Research Magazine 2005-10-10 Chris Bryant Think we’ve advanced too far in Civil Rights issues and medical care to resort to making health judgments based on skin color? Don’t be so sure, says Dr. Gregory Dorr, an assistant professor of history at The University of…
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The headlines back in June, 2005, read “FDA approves a heart drug for African Americans”. The decision that gave the company NitroMed approval for its drug BiDil exclusively to a “racial group” represented a milestone in US drug policy. The decision ignited a debate that polarised the African American community, confounded proponents of personalised medicine,…
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Are medical and nonmedical uses of large-scale genomic markers conflating genetics and ‘race’? Nature Genetics Volume 36, Number 11s (2004) pages S43-S47 DOI: 10.1038/ng1439 Charles N. Rotimi, Director Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health “…with each birth and each death we alter the genetic attributes of human populations and drawing a line around…
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Grassroots Marketing in a Global Era: More Lessons from BiDil The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2011 pages 79–90 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00552.x Britt M. Rusert, External Humanities Fellow Center for the Humanities Temple University Charmaine D. M. Royal, Associate Research Professor Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy; Department of African…
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While many commentators who supported the approval of BiDil for black patients state that “race” is not a scientifically precise term for identifying relevant genomic or physiological characteristics that differentiate population groups, nevertheless, they argue that “self-identified race” is a useful proxy for those characteristics. However, what is the evidence that the proxy “self-identified race”…