{"id":58072,"date":"2019-05-14T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58072"},"modified":"2019-05-14T22:53:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:53:04","slug":"the-intersection-of-race-and-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58072","title":{"rendered":"The Intersection of Race and Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Intersection of Race and Blood<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2019-05-14<\/p>\n

Rose George<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nKeith Negley<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

Blood can be racially or ethnically specific, so having more blood donors in certain groups can be crucial for saving the lives of patients who share their backgrounds.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need black blood<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know what to say to this, not least because it had been said by the head of donor services at England\u2019s National Health Service Blood and Transplant<\/a>. The interview was for a book I was writing on blood, a topic I knew a little about by then, but the baldness of his statement still shocked me. Surely we\u2019re all the same under the skin?<\/p>\n

I knew the history of race and blood was an ugly one. America\u2019s earliest blood bank<\/a>, founded in 1937 at Cook County Hospital<\/a> in Chicago<\/a>, noted race on donor forms and other blood banks followed suit. During World War II<\/a>, African-American blood was labeled N for Negro (and some centers refused African-American donors outright) and given only to African-American soldiers. Writing to Eleanor Roosevelt<\/a>, the chairman of the American Red Cross<\/a>, Norman H. Davis<\/a>, admitted that segregating blood was \u201ca matter of tradition and sentiment rather than of science,\u201d but didn\u2019t stop doing it until 1950. Louisiana<\/a> banned the segregation of blood only in 1972.<\/p>\n

But the Red Cross was wrong: While no one is suggesting forced segregation of blood bags, it\u2019s now scientifically established that blood can be racially or ethnically specific…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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