To our knowledge, race-specific poverty gradients for melanoma have not previously been reported because of the rarity of this disease among nonwhites; more commonly, melanoma reporting is restricted to white non-Hispanics.
Although various traditional disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, and literature, among others, offer valuable knowledge on race and ethnicity, ethnicity and race studies provides a flexible interdisciplinary and comparative space to bring the insights of various conceptual frameworks and disciplines together in critical dialogue.
He also developed a love of theatre and jazz as a student and had a keen interest in horse racing, with a knowledge of racing form which he deployed to considerable effect at the bookmakers.
I wish all contestants well in this knowledge management race.
In addition to those cited here, many other Princeton faculty members are deeply engaged in teaching and generating knowledge about race and American society.
Re "Stranded at First Base," Aug. 12: It's unfortunate that a lack of knowledge regarding race foils an attempt to highlight imbalances in coaching assignments in Major League Baseball.
Professor Duster's research and writing ranges across the sociology of law, deviance, knowledge, inequality, race, science, and education, and is bound by the common thread of interrogating the normative frames that create and organize taxonomies of information and power.
The course insisted that women "acquire special knowledge of race and genetics" and only when a woman had acquired such knowledge could she gain certificates of accomplishment (which were also found in the archive, embellished with the Germanic 'Tree of Life'; a woman who did not comply was refused not only this certificate but also permission to marry).
The added quotient of outrage in cases like this one stems not from the belief that a white murderer is somehow worse than a black one but from the knowledge that race determines whether fear, history, and public sentiment offer that killer a usable alibi.
We expect to be served knowledge about race and racism in palatable doses.
