Section outline

  • Racial Demography and its Discontents
    Guest: Robert Pickett, UC Berkeley


    Location:  Mission Hall 1108

    • Session Slides:

    • Required Reading:

      1. Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. 2005. "Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research: Models to Explain Health Disparities." Annual Review of Anthropology. 34:231-252.

        2. 2. (skim)van den Oord, Edwin J. C. G., and David c. Rowe. 2000. "Racial differences in birth health risk: A quantitative genetic approach." Demography. 37(3):285-298.
        3. Frank, Reanne. 2001. "The misuse of biology in demographic research on racial/ethnic differences: A reply to van den oord and rowe." Demography. 38(4):563-567.
        4. Zuberi, Tukufu. 2001. "One step back in understanding racial differences in birth weight." Demography. 38(4):569-571.
        5. Van Den Oord, Edwin J. C. G., and David C. Rowe. 2001. "A step in another direction: Looking for maternal genetic and environmental effects on racial differences in birth weight." 38(4):573-576.
        6. Saperstein, Aliya and Andrew M. Penner. 2012. "Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States." American Journal of Sociology. 118(3):676-727.

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Zuberi File
    • Oord-Rowe2001 Article AStepInAnotherDirectionLooking File
    • Saperstein File
    • Dresssler File
    • Oord-Rowe2000 Article RacialDifferencesInBirthHealth File
    • Frank2001 Article TheMisuseOfBiologyInDemographi File
    • RacialDemography UCSF 2018Oct22 File