Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee
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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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Race takes on a particular relevance in the United States, given our history and also the political climate now. In science, we see the way race has become this enduring variable that explains things like oppression. It’s very powerful and it resonates, so there’s even more responsibility to use it carefully and to really uncouple…
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The medical anthropologist on the imperative to move beyond race in genetic research and the explanatory power of life experience and inequality.
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The Color of American Genomics: Genetics in the Era of Racialized Medicine University of California, Los Angeles 306 Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive Los Angeles, California 90095 Friday, 2016-12-09, 13:30-16:30 PST (Local Time) SPEAKERS: Michael Montoya, Associate Professor University of California, Irvine Sandra Soo Jin Lee, Senior Research Scholar Stanford University Joan Donovan University of…
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What is most disturbing about the paradoxical use of race is the effect it may have on the trajectory of ongoing human genetic variation research. By making the moral argument that race-based therapeutics address injustice in health care, and at the same time maintaining that genetics research will ultimately eliminate the need for racial categories,…
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Racializing Drug Design: Implications of Pharmacogenomics for Health Disparities American Journal of Public Health Volume 95, Number 12 (December 2005) pages 2133-2138 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.068676 Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Senior Research Scholar Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Stanford University Current practices of using “race” in pharmacogenomics research demands consideration of the ethical and social implications for understandings…