race

What it means to be "Malay" - Confronting the Diversity & Contradiction

aboey — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:57:59 -0500

In the past five centuries, the Malay community has settled across a wide area, from the Riau Archipelago to as far as the banks of South Africa. A new book published by Wiley-Blackwell, The Malays, confronts the bewildering diversity and contradictions of the Malay identity, ethnicity and consciousness. The book seeks to provide a provocative case study of the Malay people and to explore the idea of “Malayness”.

Race and gender determine how politicians speak

harminka — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:22:36 -0600

Race and gender influence the way politicians speak, which is not always to their advantage. Camelia Suleiman from Florida International University and Daniel O’Connell from Georgetown University in the US have come to this conclusion as a result of their findings¹, published online in Springer’s Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.

Diabetes and race study reveals science of defining ethnic groups

harminka — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:50:59 -0600

Race impacts professional lives of physicians of African descent

harminka — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:28:29 -0600