MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'interracial'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:59:10 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4911455&cid=t_143132_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FKqSbv2XRftU%2F By Caleb O. Brown On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage in more than a dozen states in the case of Loving v. Virginia. Today, the highest court in the United States may soon take on the issue of marriage equality for gay and lesbian relationships. Attorneys David Boies and Theodore B. Olson are hoping the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger will further establish marriage as a fundamental right of citizenship. Also featured are John Podesta, President of the Center for American Progress, Cato Institute Chairman Robert A. Levy and Cato Executive Vice President David Boaz. Watch the full event from which many clips were pulled here and Robert A. Levy’s presentation here. The Constitutional Case for Marriage Equality is a post from Cato @ Liberty ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4911455 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:52:04 +0100 4911455 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1730804&cid=t_143132_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F25%2Fthe-cognitive-costs-of-interracial-interactions%2F Ann Conkle has an article, titled “Investigating Interracial Interactions,” (in the current APS Observer) summarizing Jennifer Richeson’s presentation at the APS 20th Annual Convention at which Richeson described her remarkable research on interracial interactions. * * * [Richeson] . . . presented her recent findings in the During an encounter between people of different races, if one or both parties are worried about the possibility of expressing or being thought to express prejudice, they may experience some level of anxiety or self-consciousness and may even induce physiological responses to stress, like an increased heart rate and constriction of blood vessels. These reactions can also be cognitively costly. After being primed with a racial situation, like discussing ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1730804 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:01:22 +0100 1730804 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1536004&cid=t_143132_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F21%2Fsituation-of-romantic-preferences-abstract%2F Russell Robinson has posted his essay, “Structural Dimensions of Romantic Preferences” (forthcoming 76 Fordham Law Review 787-2819 (2008) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * In this essay, I make two main points: First, I call for a focus on the impact of structural conditions on preferences regarding intimacy. We tend to think our preferences are natural and fixed when, in fact, they may be more plastic and susceptible to structural influences than we imagine. To illustrate this theme, I examine a few structures that channel our preferences, namely, racial screening mechanisms on Internet dating web sites and sex segregation in queer social spaces. Second, I provide a warning against uncritical celebrations of increasing interracial intimacy as a sign of reduced prejudic... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1536004 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:01:07 +0100 1536004 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1238189&cid=t_143132_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F02%2Farms-races-and-interracial-encounters.php After YouTubing VH1's The Pickup Artist (a contest reality show where guys learn how to pick up girls), something struck me about how the bar and nightclub scene so thoroughly devastated the East Asian contestant. Sure, every guy gets rejection anxiety and experiences rejection, including the occasional antarctic stare and turn-away response that the Asian guy received. But he looked like he was about to commit suicide, which he ended up doing symbolically by electing himself to be kicked off the show. You see the same stewing-in-rage pattern among Angry Asian Male websites, where they barely contain their bitterness about how White females show no interest in them. * Why is it that Asian guys seem to experience shell-shock in the bar and nightclub scene?The answer may lie in the arms race... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1238189 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:19:00 +0100 1238189 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=824796&cid=t_143132_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F148864888%2Fthe_misconception_that_opposit.html We often hear that opposites attract … but it’s usually not so. Why do you think  racial slurs continually pop up. Recently in the elevator, I heard two co-workers discussing a mixed race couple from their firm. One manager said … “I hope they realize what they’re up against…” and the other shot back … "they likely have no idea what they’re in for."Why then, do we think opposites attract? Maybe it’s because we see more openness than in past?” Look closer though. Deeper differences of color, race, religion, and ethnicity don’t usually attract one another – and often polarize and diminish people in cruel ways. Are we simply deceived? No question - many people attribute some growth in interracial ... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=824796 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:31:44 +0100 824796