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: race correction
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The University of Maryland Medical System and the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced Wednesday that they will stop using the race-based diagnostic equation to estimate kidney function.
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Ending the use of race-based multipliers in these and dozens of other calculators will take more than a task force in one medical specialty. It’ll need researchers to not just believe, but act on the knowledge that race is not biology, and for the biomedical research enterprise to implement clearer standards for how these calculators…
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If nothing in medicine changes, it’s just a matter of time before yet another race-based risk calculator harms people of color.
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Abolish race correction The Lancet Volume 397, Issue 10268 (2021-01-02) pages 17-18 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32716-1 Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Several years ago my daughter sent me an alarming text. She copied the…