13.7: End of Chapter Content

For Further Exploration

Videos

American Medical Association (AMA). 2020. “Examining Race-Based Medicine.” YouTube, October 29. Accessed June 4, 2023.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 2016. “The Urgency of Intersectionality.” YouTube, December 7. Accessed June 4, 2023.

Golash-Boza, Tanya. 2018. “What Is Race? What Is Ethnicity? Is There a Difference?.” YouTube, October 28. Accessed June 4, 2023.

Lasisi, Tina. 2020. “How Hair Reveals the Futility of Race Categories.” National Museum of Natural History webinar, October 21.

Lasisi, Tina. 2022. “Where Does My Skin Color Come From?.” PBS Terra, August 18. Accessed June 4, 2023.

PBS Origins. 2018. “The Origin of Race in the USA.” YouTube, April 3. Accessed June 4, 2023.

Roberts, Dorothy. 2016. “The Problem with Race-Based Medicine.” YouTube, March 4. Accessed June 4, 2023.

Vox. 2015. “The Myth of Race, Debunked in 3 Minutes.” YouTube, January 13. Accessed June 4, 2023.

Podcast Episodes

Kwong, Emily, and Rebecca Ramirez. 2021. “Here’s a Better Way to Talk about Hair: A 16 Minute Listen with Tina, Lasisi” NPR Short Wave, October 6. Accessed June 4, 2023.

Speaking of Race. 2020. “Race and Health series.” Speaking of Race, April 10. Accessed June 4, 2023.

Websites

Choices Program. 2023. “An Interactive Timeline: Black Activism and the Long Fight for Racial Justice.” Choices Program, Brown University [Interactive Timeline], Updated February, 2023.

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Image Description

Figure 13.14a: This world map is colored in to reflect the percent of populations that have the A allele (for ABO bloodtypes). The lightest color reflects populations with 0-5% allele A, and these increase at 5% intervals to the darkest color for 35-40% allele A. The lightest colors are in the Americas, particularly in South America. The darkest colors are in Europe, Australia, and very northern North America.

Figure 13.14b: This world map is colored in to reflect the percent of populations that have the B allele (for ABO bloodtypes). The lightest color reflects populations with 0-5% allele B, and these increase at 5% intervals to the darkest color for 25-30% allele B. The lightest color covers most of North and South America and Australia. The darkest colors are found in central Asia.

Figure 13.14c: This world map is colored in to reflect the percent of populations that have the O allele (the most common allele for ABO bloodtypes). The lightest color reflects populations with 50-60% allele O, and these increase at 10% intervals to the darkest color for 90-100% allele O. The lightest color is in central Asia, and the darkes colors are in North and South America.

Figure 13.19: This map shows the distribution of the four subspecies of chimpanzees and bonobos across west and central Africa.

Chimpanzees:

• Pan troglodytes verus: found across many nations in West Africa including Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast
• Pan troglodytes ellioti: found only in Nigeria and Cameroon
• Pan troglodytes troglodytes: found in Cameroon and Congo Basin
• Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii: found in Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Bonobos

Pan paniscus: Found in the Democratic Republic of Congo