{"id":26517,"date":"2012-11-18T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26517"},"modified":"2012-11-18T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T16:35:27","slug":"paradigm-lost-race-ethnicity-and-the-search-for-a-new-population-taxonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26517","title":{"rendered":"Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2105\/AJPH.91.7.1049\" target=\"_blank\">Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajph.aphapublications.org\/loi\/ajph\" target=\"_blank\">American Journal of Public Health<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ajph.aphapublications.org\/toc\/ajph\/91\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 91, Number 7<\/a> (July 2001)<br \/>\npages 1049-1056<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2105\/AJPH.91.7.1049\" target=\"_blank\">10.2105\/AJPH.91.7.1049<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailman.columbia.edu\/our-faculty\/profile?uni=go10\" target=\"_blank\">Gerald M. Oppenheimer<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently recommended that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reevaluate its employment of \u201crace,\u201d a concept lacking scientific or anthropological justification, in cancer surveillance and other population research. The IOM advised the NIH to use a different population classification, that of \u201cethnic group,\u201d instead of \u201crace.\u201d A relatively new term, according to the IOM, \u201cethnic group\u201d would turn research attention away from biological determinism and toward a focus on culture and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>This article examines the historically central role of racial categorization and its relationship to racism in the United States and questions whether dropping \u201crace\u201d from population taxonomies is either possible or, at least in the short run, preferable. In addition, a historical examination of \u201cethnicity\u201d and \u201cethnic group\u201d finds that these concepts, as used in the United States, derive in part from race and immigration and are not neutral terms; instead, they carry their own burden of political, social, and ideological meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/ajph.aphapublications.org\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.2105\/AJPH.91.7.1049\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy American Journal of Public Health Volume 91, Number 7 (July 2001) pages 1049-1056 DOI: 10.2105\/AJPH.91.7.1049 Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently recommended that the National Institutes of Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,394,20],"tags":[1750,12745,12746],"class_list":["post-26517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-american-journal-of-public-health","tag-gerald-m-oppenheimer","tag-gerald-oppenheimer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}