AnnBibJamieson

__GENETICS AND RACE: RESEARCHERS EXPLORE WHY RATES OF DISEASES VARY FROM ONE POPULATION TO ANOTHER:__

Spice, Byron. "Genetics and race: Researchers explore why rates of diseases vary from one population to another." //Health & Science// (2006): 1-5. Web. 10 Nov 2009. 

Byron Spice was the author of this article. He is an educated man; a writer and researcher who had researched this topic a lot and has an extensive knowledge on the topic. The article is talking about how race and genetics are related, how genetics can be partially based on your race and your genetics play a role in what race you are. It explains a theory about how race is more than skin deep and how that can relate to medicine. Unlike the link below this, this article is more about how the intertwined concepts relate to medicine than the theory of how race and genetics are combined. This is a useful source because it talks about the connection of race and genetics, which explains important medical discoveries and gives me a lot of good information and research on my topic. There is no bias on this website, I don't think, because he was looking on and researching from a 3rd person perspective.

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__NINA JOBALONSKI BREAKS THE ILLUSION OF SKIN COLOR:__

"Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color." //youtube.com//. Web. 11 Nov 2009. 

This video was a TED Talk video, the main topic being Nina Jablonski talking about her theory about race. Basically in this video Jablonski is saying that we all had the same skin color in the beginning, but now we have different skin color because our ancestors lived different places on the Earth and had different exposure to UV light, therefore throughtout generations that skin color trait was passed on. It also talks about how she came to think about this topic, starting with Darwin, etc. This video helped me because part of my question was if race was only skin deep and this gives some insight not only in that area but also tells us that race really depended a lot on where you were from more than the color of your skin really, the color was just a reflection of where you were from. This led to discovery about ancestry and gave me more knowledge about how that can relate to race-specific medicine, such as how some diseases could be more common to one particular race because the disease was common (or not common at all) for their ancestors, etc. There probably isn't much bias in this video because the speaker is a professor of anthropology and would like to research as much as she can, without bias, to understand better the topic. If there was bias, it would be in religion because this topic could be related to the evolution theory, which would defy the bible a little. You need to have some belief in evolution (not exactly the whole evolution theory, but some FORM of evolution in the past thousands of years) to believe this theory.

__RACE AND GENETICS:__

Hotep, Amon. "Race and Genetics." //Tricenter// (2000): 1-6. Web. 10 Nov 2009. .

Amon Hotep was the author of this article. He was an educated man who studies race and conducted a lot of research on this topic, as it was commonly associated with some of his discoveries about race. This article is about how race and genetics are intertwined concepts. It goes into some depth about genetics, which is probably because it is the concept people might be less familiar with, but need a full understanding of in order to see his point. Unlike the link above, this link talks more about the theory of how race and genetics are related and doesn't go into how it relates to medicine AS MUCH. This is a useful source because it talks about the connection of race and genetics, which explains important medical discoveries and gives me a lot of good information and research on my topic. There is some bias on this topic because there are scientific beliefs that are not fully proven true yet, but probable and must be believed to understand and believe the things stated. It gives me insightful opinions on my topic that helps develop my page.

In addition to the citations above I would like to thank Mr. Goldberg for all the information he shared with us in class and through his notes. This was really helpful to furthering our basic knowledge about race and allowing us to explore further into our individual topics.

__Links From Images:__

(1) http://lyitl.org/images/Medical_Symbol.gif -- I used this image because my wiki is about how race relates to medicine, so a medical symbol would represent the medical part of this wiki.

(2) http://www.ila.net.au/files/2FUGT9K4P0/Hands.jpg -- I used this image because there are a lot of different colored hands in this picture all together, and I thought that would be a good representation of the "race" aspect in my wiki (all together, not separated, but also all different. Against a blue sky background these hands all show up really nicely in the picture too).

(3) http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20020507hgene0507p3.asp -- I used this picture because it shows a man conducting a scientific experiment (probably about medicine and race because it comes from a page in an article on race and medicine). That's important to have because you know people are looking into the topic and it's not just a question left unanswered. It really brings forward that there is a science to this topic.

& again, thanks to Mr. Goldberg for the "4 Basic Types of Race" pictures from his class notes! Those were useful in not only representations of different races and how their physical features are different, but also shows us how (in a very broad range) scientists might distinguish different races. It also furthers our knowledge in the topic of race in general too.