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  • Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

    In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race.

  • ‘Race is not biological, it’s a social construct’: Scientists say ethnicity does NOT determine health risks – and doctors who say so are just fueling ‘racial prejudice’

    Race is not a legitimate category to use in medicine, top scientists declared at the world’s biggest science conference this week.

  • How Not To Talk About Race And Genetics

    Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.

  • Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters

    Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters Wake Forest University Broyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106 Thursday, 2014-02-06, 19:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr., Associate Dean for Research, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University & UNC-Greensboro, will discuss the…

  • Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

    Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research Rutgers University Press 2013-08-12 256 pages 6 figures, 8 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-6136-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-6137-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8135-6138-7 Edited by: Laura E. Gómez, Professor of Law, Sociology, and Chicano Studies University of California, Los Angeles Nancy López, Associate Professor of Sociology University of…

  • Race in Contemporary Medicine

    Race in Contemporary Medicine Routledge 2007 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-41365-7 Edited by: Sander L. Gilman With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older…

  • Against racial medicine

    Against racial medicine Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 481-493 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020189 Joseph L. Graves Jr., Dean of University Studies; Professor of Biological Sciences North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro Michael R. Rose, Director of the University of California Network for Experimental Research on…

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium

    According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems until people understand that separate human races do not exist empirically. With the biological basis for race removed, racism becomes an ideology, one that can and must be expunged.

  • The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America

    The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America Plume an imprint of Penguin June 2005 320 pages 5.35 x 7.99in Paperback ISBN: 9780452286580 Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro Preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph…

  • Biological v. Social Definitions of Race: Implications for Modern Biomedical Research

    Biological v. Social Definitions of Race: Implications for Modern Biomedical Research The Review of Black Political Economy Volume 37, Number 1 (2010) pages 43-60 DOI: 10.1007/s12114-009-9053-3 Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro Misconceptions concerning the concordance…