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American Medicine and the Politics of Race [PDF]

, 2005
Straw men play a major role in the debate over racial disparity in American medicine. Most have been deployed by the disparities-denying right, but progressives intent on “outing” racism have sent forth their share.
Bloche, Maxwell Gregg
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Factors that Influence Persistence of Biology Majors at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

, 2020
To promote diversity within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce, we must identify factors that influence or hinder historically underrepresented minority (URM) students’ persistence to degrees in STEM.
Ashford-Hanserd, Shetay, Daniel, Kristy, García, Dana M., Idema, Jenn L.   +3 more
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Race as Technology: From Posthuman Cyborg to Human Industry [PDF]

, 2017
Cyborg and prosthetic technologies frame prominent posthumanist approaches to understanding the nature of race. But these frameworks struggle to accommodate the phenomena of racial passing and racial travel, and their posthumanist orientation blurs ...
Jones, Holly, Jones, Nicholaos
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Caution, Student Experience May Vary: Social Identities Impact a Student's Experience in Peer Discussions [PDF]

, 2015
In response to calls for implementing active learning in college-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses, classrooms across the country are being transformed from instructor centered to student centered.
Brownell, Sara E., Eddy, Sarah L., Lan, Mming-Chih, Thummaphan, Phonraphee, Wenderoth, Mary pat   +4 more
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Teaching Diversity

SAGE Open, 2015
This article is targeted to faculty teaching race and ethnicity, racism, diversity, and multicultural courses. Many students equate race with skin color.
Kay Young McChesney
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Race as a Legal Concept

Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 2019
Race is a legal concept, and like all legal concepts, it is a matrix of rules. Although the legal conception of race has shifted over time, up from slavery and to the present, one element in the matrix has remained the same: the background rules of race ...
Justin Desautels-Stein
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Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief [PDF]

, 2018
In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017).
Andrews, Kristin, Comstock, Gary, Crozier, G. K. D., Donaldson, Sue, Fenton, Andrew, John, Tyler, Johnson, L. Syd M., Jones, Robert, Kymlicka, Will, Meynell, Letitia, Nobis, Nathan, Pena-Guzman, David M., Sebo, Jeff   +12 more
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Evolutionary-thinking in agricultural weed management [PDF]

, 2009
Agricultural weeds evolve in response to crop cultivation. Nevertheless, the central importance of evolutionary ecology for understanding weed invasion, persistence and management in agroecosystems is not widely acknowledged.
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Between Biology and Culture. Polish Reflections on the Concept of Race in the Nineteenth Century

Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 2023
In the nineteenth century, the Polish reflection on race and derivative terms was strongly influenced by the Western thought. New achievements and terminology in the field of natural sciences were adopted.
Joanna Nowak, Katarzyna Wrzesińska
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Muslim undergraduate biology students' evolution acceptance in the United States.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Evolution is a prominent component of biology education and remains controversial among college biology students in the United States who are mostly Christian, but science education researchers have not explored the attitudes of Muslim biology students ...
M Elizabeth Barnes, Julie A Roberts, Samantha A Maas, Sara E Brownell   +3 more
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