Tag: Patterns of Prejudice

  • The penalties of miscegenation Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 3, 1972 pages 10-12 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969062 Mary Dines (1927-2011) Paragraph 24 of “Commonwealth Citizens: Control after Entry: Immigration Rules” (Cmd. 4295) reads: “If a man who was admitted as a visitor or student, or in some other temporary capacity, marries a woman who is a…

  • Becoming black, becoming president Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1-2, 2011 pages 62-85 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563145 Richard H. King, Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham Speculation about the relationship between Barack Obama’s election to the presidency and race in the United States was rife prior to, during and after his successful…

  • Taking racism into account does not mean refusing to collect and classify data in medical research according to race and ethnicity. On the contrary, those classifications provide important epidemiological information, as Risch et al. maintain, about the impact of social and environmental factors—including socio-economic inequities and cultural biases—on the health of individuals and groups. As…

  • 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…

  • Blood and stories: how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 303-333 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020064 Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and Women’s Studies Duke University In 2003 Howard University announced its intention to create a databank of the DNA of…

  • Onerous passions: colonial anti-miscegenation rhetoric and the history of sexuality Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 4, 2011 pages 319-340 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.605843 Nadine Ehlers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Ehlers’s analysis revisits Foucauldian conceptualizations of the history of sexuality in order to map the inextricability of race, gender…

  • The Arabs of Africa Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 1 (1972) pages 1-9 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969036 Ali Mazruia, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities State University of New York, Binghamton The combination of acculturation and inter-mating between races might be called a process of biocultural assimilation Some degree of integration between groups is achieved by…

  • Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2  (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 133-153 DOI: 110.1080/0031322X.2011.563159 Jonathan Y. Okamura, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Hawai’i Okamura reviews the 2008 US presidential campaign and the election of Barack Obama…

  • Prologue: the riddle of race Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 4-14 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563141 Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA [African Americans, Latinos/as, Asian Americans and Native Americans] US Ethnic Studies University of Vermont James Vellacott, ‘President Obama shakes the hand of PC…

  • How to read Michelle Obama Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 95 – 117 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563149 Maria Lauret, Reader in American Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Michelle Obama’s role as the first African American First Lady is more than merely symbolic. Her self-representation…