Interview on genome research in indigenous communities. With Praba Pilar on Black Mask, a radio news show on politics from an anarchist perspective. CKUW Winnipeg (September 25, 2013). https://ckuw.ca/128/20130925.16.00-17.00.mp3
The African-American grandmother of a friend of mine once summed up the laws that govern black identity in this country. "If you ever want to know if someone's black or not," she would say, "go ask their white neighbor." That succinct, small-town Georgia wisdom essentially outlines the rule of hypodescent, also known as the one-drop [...]
When American Indian identity is based on culture as much as blood, gene tests can tear tribes apart BLASTED from arid, rocky land where rattlesnakes once thrived, the Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino stands like a modern castle in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Saturday night and the car park is heaving with [...]
BERKELEY — A controversial UC Berkeley program to analyze three genes in the DNA of incoming students culminates next week with a keynote address and the first of a series of panel discussions and lectures that will run through October. Organizers and critics alike hope these events will spark a campus-wide discussion of the pros [...]