Daily Show report on the situation in Ferguson

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ufqeuz/race-off?xrs=synd_facebook_112414_tds_89

Revised Elevator Pitch:

Title: Neanderthal: The ‘New’ Race

Elevator Pitch: Race is a burdensome word when used in relation to human populations.  Despite the pain and negative connotations attached to the word Race it is a permanent part of our lexicon. However, culture induced semantic shift in the past has changed the ideologies surrounding Race.  With new information from the scientific community the biological definition of Race has been proven false.  By inducing a controlled narrowing of the word Race the lexical field that surrounds Race will also be changed.  Science will once again inform the public while shaping our racial ideologies.

 Through the research presented here I will show H.s. neandertalensis and H.s. denisovans are worthy of inclusion in modern racial categories. The purpose of this inclusion is to re-write our cultural perceptions of race and to further blur perceived racial distinctions in an effort to create cultural accord

Theory/Model: The theoretical framework for the semantic shift of the word ‘Race’ will be the Lexical Field theory.  To prove that H.s. neandertalensis and H.s. denisovans are in fact races of humanity the Out of Africa African hybridization-and-replacement model will be used with support from current research in genomics.  

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2002.     New Evidence on the Relationship Between Race and Mortgage Default: The Importance of Credit History Data. Economic, Washington D.C.: Office of Policy Development and Research U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

DeNavas-Walt, Carmen and Proctor, Bernadette D.

2014.     Income and Poverty in the United States. Current Population Reports US Census, Washington DC: US Government.

Facchini, François and Melki, Mickaël.    

2011.     "Ideology and Cultural Change: A Theoretical Approach." Association for the Study of Religion, Economics & Culture, ASREC. Washington, DC: Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 France. pp.1-9.

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2013.    "Significance of Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes in Human Evolution." Annual Review in Anthropology pp.433-449.

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2014.     The Condition of Education 2014. Education Statistics, Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Education.

Kleparski, Grzegorz A and Rusinek Angelina.

2007.     "The Tradition of Field Theory and the Study of Lexical Semantic Change." Seria Filologigiczna Studia Anglica Resoviensia issue 47 (vol. 4): pp. 188-205.

Meijs, Willem and Vossen, Piek.

1991.     "In So Many Words: Knowledge as a Lexical Phenomenon." In Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation, by James and Bergler, Sabine Pustejovsky, edited by James and Bergler, Sabine Pustejovski, pp. 137-153. Berkley: Springer Berlin Heiderberg.

O'Grady, William.

2005.     Contemporary Linguistics 5th Edition. Gordonsville: Bedford/St. Martins.

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2010.    Correctional Populations in the United States. Census, Washington DC: U.S. Department of Justice .

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2001.     "Nonhuman Primate Hybridization and the Taxanomic Status of Neandertals." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Issue 2. vol. 115. pp. 157-166.

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2007.     Race in North America. 3. Boulder: Westview Press.

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2006.     "Prison Industrial Complex." Edited by George H Conklin. Scoiation Today.

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2011.     "They Say It's in the Genes: Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, vol. 40, 5: pp. 550-581.

Guide on Posters

Hey guys here is a guide I came across for creating anthropology posters. Hope it helps.

http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/upload/how-to-create-anthropology-posters.pdf

"Diet Racism"

I hope this gives everyone a laugh or giggle during this stressful week.

Final Paper Topic

Working Title: The Impact of Race on Educational Outcomes

Bibliography:

Andrews, Rodney and Omari Swinton

   2014     The Persistent Myths of ‘Acting White’ and Race Neutral Alternatives to

   Affirmative Action in Admissions. Review of Black Political Economy 41(3): 357-371.

Cashin, Sheryll

   2014     Place, Not Race: Affirmative Action and the Geography of Educational

   Opportunity. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 47(4): 935-965.

Donner, Jamel K.

   2012     Whose Compelling Interest? The Ending of Desegregation and the Affirming

   of Racial Inequality in Education. Education & Urban Society 44(5): 535-552.

Murnane, Richard J.

   2013     U.S. High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations. Journal of

   Economic Literature 51(2): 370-422.

Savas, Gokhan

   2014     Understanding Critical Race Theory as a Framework in Higher Educational

   Research. British Journal of Sociology of Education 35(4): 506-522.

Scott, Janelle and Rand Quinn

   2014     The Politics of Education in the Post-Brown Era: Race, Markets, and the

   Struggle for Equitable Schooling. Educational Administration Quarterly 50(5): 749-

   763.

Elevator Pitch: Schools were desegregated in 1954, yet 60 years later we still struggle with inequality throughout the education system. Depending on where a child lives—which is largely determined by socioeconomic status and, frequently, race—he gets assigned to a school which can offer him numerous opportunities, or to a school which can offer him very few. The abundance or lack of such educational opportunities impacts whether or not a child pursues higher education, and whether he graduates from high school at all. In a push to level the playing field for children assigned to low-opportunity schools, several plans have been proposed to increase minority college admissions, but there is heavy debate over which of these plans truly help the problems at hand.

Theory: To further my research, I will use critical race theory, which is taken from American law. I found a very informative book detailing it called Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Critical race theory examines the institutions already in place (such as the public education system) which negatively impact the opportunities available to racial minorities simply by existing as they do. Because the United States public education system was created with white students in mind, it primarily serves white students, thus white students are more likely than minorities to succeed in the system. The only way to truly achieve education equality, according to critical race theory, is to rebuild the current system.

Paper Topic

Title: BiDil and the Beginning of the Racialization of Pharmaceuticals
Elevator Pitch: In the past few decades pharmaceutical companies have made attempts at financial gains by the biologization of race. This paper is going to delve into the argument on the validity of race based pharmaceuticals, starting with the creation of BiDil and going into the further research the FDA has conducted in order to push for the biologization of race, and whether this is a applicable process, or if the companies are simply exploiting an archaic and invalid idea of a genetic separation of the races to promote their products.
Theory: Political economy of health theory is a theory that is shaped by political, economic, and socio-historical powers. The theory explains how these driving forces shape health problems in the world and how we also deal with these problems. Race is a very powerful political topic and since the United States was established there have been many disparities in the medical world for people of color. Using this theory to analyze the FDA’s choice at marketing pharmaceutical drugs towards one type of race, I am going to question what is the driving force behind this decision and why it is an ill-conceived notion to create medicines that only work at benefiting one specific race.
Bibliography:

Azoulay, Katya G.

2006 Reflections on Race and the Biologization of Difference. Patterns of Prejudice 40(4-5):353-79. 

Brody, Howard, and Lina Hunt

2006 BiDil: Assessing a Race-Based Pharmaceutical. Annals of Family Medicine 4(6):556-60.

Fujimura, Joan H., and Troy Duster, Ramy Rajagopalan

2008 Race, Genetics, and Disease: Questions of Evidence, Matters of Consequence. Social Studies of Science 38(5):643-56.

Harris, David E., and Eve A. Raimon

1998 What is “Race”? A Transdisciplinary Course / A Pedagogical Challenge. College Teaching 46(2):68-71.

Holden, Constance

            2003 Race and Medicine. Science 302:594-96.

Kahn, Johnathan

2013 Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age. New York: Columbia University Press. 

Melvin, Roxanne

2012 Open Door to Pharmaceutical Shortcuts: How the FDA can Regulate Race-Based Personalized Medicine. Health, Law, & Policy Brief 6(1):25-33.

Roberts, Dorothy

2006 Legal Constraints on the Use of Race in Biomedical Research: Toward a Social Justice Framework. Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 24(3):526-34.

2008 Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African American- Approaches to Race, Biomedicine, and Equality. Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 36(3):537-45.

2011 What’s Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?: Genes, Drugs, and Health Disparaties. Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, & Technology 12(1):1-21.

Van der Geest, Sjaak, and Susan R. Whyte, Anita Hardon

1996 The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals: A Biographical Approach. Annual Review of Anthropology 25:153-78.

KKK Now Accepting Membership of Non-Whites

Ran across this article this morning.  It would make an interesting add campaign for state tourism boards.  "Washington State:  Where the Pot is Legal and even our Klan is Slightly Progressive!" One person quoted in the interview nailed it.  Pure farce.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ku-klux-klan-opens-its-doors-hispanic-blacks-jews-gays-1473907