{"id":6199,"date":"2010-03-21T02:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T02:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2010-03-21T02:36:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T02:36:45","slug":"blood-race-and-national-identity-scientific-and-popular-discourses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6199","title":{"rendered":"Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/springerlink.com\/content\/auc0r7ejk2hle2qc\" target=\"_blank\">Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/springerlink.com\/content\/104920\/?p=872cfa0094ef44ebbe798f46eccb7b63&amp;pi=0\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Medical Humanities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/springerlink.com\/content\/v341038326g6\/?p=872cfa0094ef44ebbe798f46eccb7b63&amp;pi=0\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 23, Numbers 3-4<\/a> (December, 2002)<br \/>\nPages 171-186<br \/>\nPrint ISSN: 1041-3545; Online ISSN: 1573-3645<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1023\/A:1016890117447<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/english\/profiles\/mccabe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Polsky McCabe<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in English<br \/>\n<em>Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay examines the symbolic significance of blood in the twentieth century and its role in determining the composition of a national community along racial lines. By drawing parallels between Nazi notions of blood and racial purity and historically contemporaneous U.S. policies regarding blood and blood products, Polsky reveals a disturbing proximity in discourse and policy. While the Nazis attempted to locate Jewish racial essence and inferiority in blood and instituted eugenic measures and laws forbidding racial admixture, similar policies existed in the U.S. based on the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one drop rule<\/a> that systematically discriminated against African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/springerlink.com\/content\/auc0r7ejk2hle2qc\/fulltext.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses Journal of Medical Humanities Volume 23, Numbers 3-4 (December, 2002) Pages 171-186 Print ISSN: 1041-3545; Online ISSN: 1573-3645 DOI: 10.1023\/A:1016890117447 Allyson Polsky McCabe, Lecturer in English Yale University This essay examines the symbolic significance of blood in the twentieth century and its role in determining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,2039,459,8,394,20],"tags":[2569,2568,2570],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-allyson-d-polsky","tag-allyson-polsky-mccabe","tag-journal-of-medical-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","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=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}