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This artist statement and poetic response to Ed Mabrey's poem map my ongoing journey to understanding my role in the cultural pursuit of racial justice. I begin with my initial reactions to the request to respond to Mabrey's poem as part of the Opening Session of the 2017 National Communication Association annual convention and explain my reasons for choosing to respond with an autoethnographic poem. I then trace my understandings of racism as 1) a working-class white child in a northern factory town, 2) a first-generation college student and academic, and 3) a parent of sons growing up in a racially divided southern US city. Location, relationships, power, and privilege emerge intertwined in my ongoing lived experience, art, and advocacy.

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RACIAL RECIPIENTS, SOCIAL DISTANCE, AND SHARING BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.1976.4.1.65 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 65-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Otto Zinser ◽

Roger C. Bailey ◽

Ralph M. Edgar

Keyword(s):

Experimental Design ◽

Social Distance ◽

White Child ◽

Second Graders ◽

Black Child ◽

The Other ◽

Differential Sensitivity ◽

Social Distance Scale ◽

The Social ◽

Sharing Behavior

Thirty-six preschoolers and 41 second graders were asked: (a) to rank, in order of preference, a white child, a black child, and an Indian child as recipients of sharing; (b) to share with the preferred recipient items of low and high value; and (c) to rank the three recipients as companions in several hypothetical, social interaction situations varying in social distance. The distributions of first choices for sharing indicated that the preschool subjects preferred the white recipient most, the Indian recipient next, and the black recipient least, while the second graders preferred the Indian recipient over the white and black recipients. The second graders who preferred the black recipient shared a larger number of items than those who preferred to share with one of the other two recipients. The distributions of first choices for the social distance items were generally consistent with those for sharing, and subjects from one school exhibited some differential sensitivity to the items of the social distance scale. The results of this investigation and those of previous research suggest that the influence of the race of the recipient on sharing behavior varies with the experimental design used.

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Trichonodosis in a patient with straight hair

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology ◽

10.1016/s0190-9622(08)81080-8 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 756-757 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Valerie Laing ◽

Steven D. Resnick

Keyword(s):

Straight Hair

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Estimating the Heritability of Hair Curliness in Twins of European Ancestry

Twin Research and Human Genetics ◽

10.1375/twin.12.5.514 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 514-518 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Sarah E. Medland ◽

Gu Zhu ◽

Nicholas G. Martin

Keyword(s):

Genetic Variants ◽

Association Studies ◽

European Ancestry ◽

Genetic Influences ◽

Point Scale ◽

Asian Populations ◽

Hair Morphology ◽

Straight Hair ◽

Hair Texture ◽

European Populations

AbstractRecent studies in Asian populations have identified variants in theEDARandFGFR2genes that arose following the divergence of Asians and Europeans and are associated with thick straight hair. To date no genetic variants have been identified influencing hair texture in Europeans. In the current study we examined the heritability of hair curliness in three unselected samples of predominantly European ancestry (NS1= 2717;NS2= 3904;NS3= 5079). When rated using a three point scale (Straight/Wavy/Curly) males were ~5% more likely to report straight hair than females and there were suggestions in the data that curliness increased slightly with age. Across samples significant additive and dominant genetic influences were detected resulting in a broad sense heritability of 85–95%. Given the magnitude and the specificity of the EDAR effect on hair morphology in Asian populations we are hopeful that future association studies will detect similar genetic influences in European populations.

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WEALTH IN THE EXTENDED FAMILY

Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race ◽

10.1017/s1742058x10000366 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 357-379 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ngina S. Chiteji

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Family ◽

Extended Family ◽

Panel Study ◽

White Child ◽

Income Dynamics ◽

Family Resources ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Material Resources ◽

Life Chances ◽

Family Wealth

AbstractThis paper argues that researchers may be misgauging family resources by focusing narrowly on the nuclear family when measuring these resources. While social scientists have long been interested in the ways that families' material resources affect their ability to provide for their offspring, the traditional measures of family resources have emphasized parents' income and parents' wealth, although the interest in the latter is relatively new (Conley 2009 [1999]; Haveman et al., 2001; Oliver and Shapiro, 2006 [1995]). This paper attempts to shift the focus to the extended family, and it uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Child Development Supplement (CDS) to paint a portrait of the volume of wealth that is available in the grandparent generation of a child's family tree. After theorizing about the potential ways that grandparent wealth can affect children's life chances, the research shows that there are substantial differences in extended-family wealth by race. The Black/White wealth ratio is on the order of 0.11 in the grandparent generation at the median, which indicates that the typical Black child has grandparents with only about eleven cents of wealth for every dollar that the grandparents of the typical White child possess. Some implications of this wealth gap for children and society are discussed.

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