{"id":25282,"date":"2012-09-09T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25282"},"modified":"2012-09-09T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T22:00:41","slug":"%e2%80%9cvulnerable%e2%80%9d-populations%e2%80%94medicine-race-and-presumptions-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25282","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVulnerable\u201d Populations\u2014Medicine, Race, and Presumptions of Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cVulnerable\u201d Populations\u2014Medicine, Race, and Presumptions of Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
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\nVirtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics<\/a>
\nVolume 13, Number 2<\/a> (February 2011)
\npages 124-127<\/p>\n

Karla F. C. Holloway<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D., MLS, James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law
\nDuke University, Durham, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the twentieth century, renowned sociologist William E. B. Du Bois<\/a> warned that \u201cthe problem of the twentieth century\u201d would be \u201cthe problem of the color line\u201d. I suspect that Du Bois would not have imagined that this color line would be as enigmatic and troubling in the twenty-first century. But the fact is that today\u2019s issues of race and identity reveal an arguably more complicated terrain. To illustrate this point, consider the background of the following patients.<\/p>\n