Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "race"
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Ambivalence About Equality in the United States or, Did Tocqueville Get it Wrong and Why Does that Matter?
(Springer Verlag, 2006)Alexis de Tocqueville believed that “democratic peoples’... passion for equality is ardent, insatiable, eternal, and invincible.” This article examines whether and under what conditions residents of the United States ... -
The Biologistical Construction of Race: "Admixture" Technology and the New Genetic Medicine
(Sage Publications, 2008)This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two interconnected laboratories of medical genetics. Specifically, it examines how researchers committed to reducing health disparities in Latinos with ... -
Children’s Books, Dolls, and the Performance of Race; or, The Possibility of Children’s Literature
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Class, Dismissed: Working-Class Youth and the Evasion of Socioeconomic Inequality in an Affluent Suburb
(2021-07-12)Despite rising income inequality and persistent racial disparities, in many communities, people struggle to talk about inequality. Scholars have found evidence of an aversion to open discourse about race in both the general ... -
The Dark Side of the Mind
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Defining Difference: The Role of Immigrant Generation and Race in American and British Immigration Studies
(Informa UK Limited, 2014)This article reviews the ways in which Britain and the USA classify and analyse the integration of immigrants and their descendants. While both societies recognize racial differences in their official statistics and in the ... -
Empirical and Normative Implications of Social Networks for Disparities: The Case of Renal Transplantation
(2013-08-28)This dissertation examines the extent to which individual-level and social network-level factors explain disparities in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) and considers the moral implications. Paper One examines ... -
An Examination of the Own-Race Preference in Infancy
(2012-10-31)The goal of this dissertation was to better characterize the nature of infants’ visual preference for own-race faces, and to test two theories regarding its origin. Chapters I and II assessed whether the race bias in infancy ... -
Exhibiting Black and Brown: Race, Spectacle, and the Archive of Latinx Performance
(2022-05-05)Exhibiting Black and Brown: Race, Spectacle, and the Archive of Latinx Performance argues that the nineteenth-century performing body has profoundly shaped Latinx racial identity. I show that historical performances of ... -
Genetic Determinism, Technology Optimism, and Race: Views of the American Public
(SAGE Publications, 2015)We begin with a typology of Americans’ understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has two dimensions: one running from genetic determinism to social construction, and ... -
How Personalized Medicine Became Genetic, and Racial: Werner Kalow and the Formations of Pharmacogenetics
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)Physicians have long puzzled over a well-known phenomenon: different patients respond differently to the same treatment. Although many explanations exist, pharmacogenetics has now captured the medical imagination. While ... -
Implicit Bias Among Physicians and Its Prediction of Thrombolysis Decisions for Black and White Patients
(Springer Verlag, 2007)Context: Studies documenting racial/ethnic disparities in health care frequently implicate physicians’ unconscious biases. No study to date has measured physicians’ unconscious racial bias to test whether this predicts ... -
Including Oneself and Including Others: Who Belongs in My Country?
(SAGE Publications, 2010)To be a first class member of a country, must one have citizenship, the same ethnic or racial background, or the same religion, as most citizens? How does high status relate to beliefs about inclusion? We analyze the 2003 ... -
Intangible Factors: Social Capital, Social Networks, and America’s Second Reconstruction
(2023-06-01)This dissertation comprises three studies of meaning-making in judicial opinions involving school desegregation in the United States over the past 60 years. In the first study, I examine rhetorical shifts across 82 Supreme ... -
Pathologies of Civility: Jews, Health, Race and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Bolshevik State, 1830-1930
(2014-10-21)The dissertation examines the interrelationship between professional and public discourses on Jewish health and the politics of citizenship in Russia across the revolutionary divides of the early twentieth century. In ... -
Pedagogies of Flesh: Sexuality, Race, and Value in the Sex Education of Postcolonial Germany
(2023-04-17)This dissertation is an ethnography of White German sexual pedagogues in Berlin, a city where ideas of open sexuality and progress are coupled together. Although sex education is mandatory in schools in Germany, it is ... -
Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)Many researchers working in the field of human genetics in the United States have been caught between two seemingly competing messages with regard to racial categories and genetic difference. As the human genome was mapped ... -
Race and IQ in the postgenomic age: The microcephaly case
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)A convergence of contextual factors, technological platforms and research frameworks in the genomics of the human brain and cognition has generated a new postgenomic model for the study of race and IQ. Centered on the case ... -
Race, Coercion, and Liberation in American Political Development
(2020-09-14)Why do coercive institutions rise and fall? While this question receives vast attention in the comparative politics literature, Americanists have been slower to take up this question. This is surprising since the United ... -
Race, Social Context, and Consumption: How Race Structures the Consumption Preferences and Practices of Middle and Working-Class Blacks
(2012-11-02)The contemporary experience of race in America demands that blacks become astute observers of their surroundings, required to read subtle social, interactional and environmental cues to determine how to appropriately engage ...