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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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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: STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine
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Continental ancestry categories fail to adequately capture human diversity. Newly assembled datasets, such as those referenced in Science, highlight that there are no distinct categories of genetic variability, only blurred continuities. Recent high-profile studies in statistical genetics have shown that, in many cases where the use of population categories was previously considered necessary, categories can…
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Race, widely used as a variable across biomedical research and medicine, is an appropriate proxy for racism — but not for anything biological. Proposals to use genetic ancestry instead of race are at risk of perpetuating the same problems.
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Should biologists stop grouping us by race? STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-02-04 Sharon Begley More than a decade after leading geneticists argued that race is not a true biological category, many studies continue to use it, harming scientific understanding and possibly patients, researchers argued in a provocative essay in Science…
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Teaching medical students to challenge ‘unscientific’ racial categories STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-03-10 Ike Swetlitz Dr. Brooke Cunningham talks about race to medical students at the University of Minnesota. Jenn Ackerman for Stat MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Medical students looking to score high on their board exams sometimes get a bit…