Interracial marriage and physiology..this is for a paper

[nvsmom]

I have been looking all over the net for sources regarding interracial marriage and physiology. I'm supposed to create a paper on this and don't really know where to start because I can't find anything. Only stuff I find is on social or psychological things.

Can anyone PLEASE help.

I mean maybe I can talk about blood mixture or something but I am not finding any sources. The paper has to be 5 pages long only.

[nursel56]

That's great nvsmom! To be honest I found the topic somewhat cringe-worthy at first due to it's possible reference to the garbage spewed my certain groups.

I just can't wait for the day when mitochondrial DNA testing is more common and affordable. Now me, I'd be thrilled to find out if my "race" had some representation from all the little check-box categories under "ethnicity". Especially "other" :)

[BabyLady, BSN, RN]

My gut reaction is that your professor doesn't understand what an outdated term "race" is, when it comes to medicine. Or perhaps he's still promoting racism is by teaching students to classify people into race pigeonholes? Debating with him probably won't help though. So if it were me, I'd just BS something about recessive genetic diseases. Good luck to you!

I disagree.

Race is still a major factor when it comes to determining not also risk factor (high or low) for certain diseases or conditions, but the two links that were posted by another member had an article on bone marrow transplants and how this was getting to be an almost impossible task for some mixed races because it was impossible to find a match.

Race is not an outdated term. Race and ethnicity are not the same thing. Everyone has a race and everyone has an ethnicity.

However, what determines race is up to the individual. If one of my parents was black and the other one was white and my skin was black then there would be nothing to stop me from checking "Caucasian" when someone asked me what my race was because the truth would be, it's 50/50, no matter how many strange looks I got.