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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Tag: María Fernanda Olarte Sierra
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The analysis of these examples from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico reveals how crucial the nation is as a frame for understanding the way racialized concepts get reiterated and reworked in genomic science, in ways that make race both disappear and reappear. Public health, multiculturalism, and forensics are all political and policy domains that directly invoke…
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‘We Are All the Same, We All Are Mestizos’: Imagined Populations and Nations in Genetics Research in Colombia Science as Culture Volume 23, Issue 2, 2014 pages 226-252 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.838214 María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Assistant Professor Department of Design University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Adriana Díaz Del Castillo Hernández, Independent Researcher Consultoría en Estudios…
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Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics Current Anthropology Volume 55, Number 5 (October 2014) pages 497-522 DOI: 10.1086/677945 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Vivette García Deister, Associate Professor Social Studies of Science Laboratory National Autonomous University of Mexico Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology…
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Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to “Mestizo Genomics” explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.