{"id":9351,"date":"2010-10-11T03:27:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T03:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2015-03-08T19:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T19:26:51","slug":"race-identity-and-medical-genomics-in-the-obama-age-lecture-with-duana-fullwiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9351","title":{"rendered":"Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/hc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/hc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Rhode Island<br \/>\nEdwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus<br \/>\nTuesday, 2010-10-05, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~aaas\/faculty\/duana_fullwiley\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Duana Fullwiley<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/hc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/hc\/2010\/images\/webBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A series of public programs at the University of Rhode Island presented by the URI Honors Program<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Join us! The public is invited to attend this series of free events.<\/p>\n<p>Perceptions about race shape everyday experiences, public policies, opportunities for individual achievement, and relations across racial and ethnic lines. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/colloquium\" target=\"_blank\">colloquium<\/a> we will explore key issues of race, showing how race still matters.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the lecture below:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"510\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z3qvaohZHJ8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z3qvaohZHJ8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Other articles by or about\u00a0Duana Fullwiley:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5985\" target=\"_blank\">Race and Genetics: An Attempt to Define the Relationship<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a title=\"Permanent link to Race in a Genetic World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Race in a Genetic World<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a title=\"Permanent link to The Biologistical Construction of Race: \u2018Admixture\u2019 Technology and the New Genetic Medicine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Biologistical Construction of Race: \u2018Admixture\u2019 Technology and the New Genetic Medicine<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a title=\"Permanent link to Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5137\" rel=\"bookmark\">Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From \u201cRace in a Genetic World\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am an African American,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~aaas\/faculty\/duana_fullwiley\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Duana Fullwiley<\/a>, \u201cbut in parts of Africa, I am white.\u201d To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senegal\" target=\"_blank\">Senegal<\/a>, she says, \u201cI take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, \u2018<em>Je suis noire<\/em>,\u2019 and they say, \u2018Oh, okay\u2014<em>m\u00e9tisse<\/em>\u2014you are mixed.\u2019 Then I fly another six to seven hours to Senegal, and I am white. <strong>In the space of a day, I can change from African American, to <em>m\u00e9tisse<\/em>, to <em>tubaab<\/em> [<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolof_language\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wolof<\/strong><\/a><strong> for \u201cwhite\/European\u201d].<\/strong> This is not a joke, or something to laugh at, or to take lightly. It is the kind of social recognition that even two-year-olds who can barely speak understand. <strong>\u2018<em>Tubaab<\/em>,\u2019 they say when they greet me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley) Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Tuesday, 2010-10-05, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z) Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University A series of public programs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,2039,13,8,394,25],"tags":[2084,3806],"class_list":["post-9351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-health-medicine","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-duana-fullwiley","tag-university-of-rhode-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","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=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}