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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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.
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Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun (review) Configurations Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2015 pages 127-130 DOI: 10.1353/con.2015.0000 Lindsey Andrews, Visiting Scholar of English Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Braun, Lundy, Breathing Race into…
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How Racism Creeps Into Medicine The Atlantic 2014-08-29 Hamza Shaban Washington, D.C. The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference. In 1864, the year before the Civil War ended, a massive study was launched to quantify the bodies of Union soldiers. One key finding in what would become a 613-page…
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Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference by Anne Pollock (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 88, Number 2, Summer 2014 pages 393-395 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2014.0025 Lundy Braun, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Africana Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Anne Pollock, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference…
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Mexico boasts a staggering genetic diversity, study shows Los Angeles Times 2014-06-12 Geoffrey Mohan SHARELINES ▼ DNA offers a nuanced answer to what it means to be Mexican ▼ Ancient genetic signal survived conquest in Mexico ▼ Latino and Hispanic labels don’t do justice to Mexico’s genome Writers, artists and historians have long pondered what…
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Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Program in Science and Technology Studies 2014-03-26 This February, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence, professor of medical science and Africana studies, and a member of the Science and Technology Studies Program, Lundy Braun released her new book Breathing…
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Approaching race as a social rather than biological construct The Daily Pennsylvanian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-04-08 Laura Anthony The Program on Race, Science and Society will examine the role of race in scientific research at upcoming symposium In 1851, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine graduate Samuel Cartwright delivered a report to the Medical Association…
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Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied…
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Defining race/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function European Respiratory Journal Volume 41, Number 6 (June 1, 2013) pages 1362-1370 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00091612 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Melanie Wolfgang Brown University Kay Dickersin, Professor, Director, Center for Clinical Trials…
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Book Review: Race in a Bottle GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 26 Issue 1, March 2013 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University In Race in a Bottle, Jonathan Kahn tracks the contentious history of BiDil, the first drug targeted specifically to African…