Blood (35 page)

blood types,
21
,
31
,
32
,
63
,
98
,
139

“blueblood” (term),
18
,
66
,
147

Blum, Sid,
187

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich,
181

Blundell, James,
30

Bodyform (sanitary pad manufacturer),
40

bone marrow,
16
,
20
,
46
,
89
,
98
.
See also entry below

bone marrow transplants,
15
,
22
,
89
; finding donors for,
92
,
180
; as legacy of atomic bomb,
91
,
94
; for leukemia patients,
90
; risks of,
90
; and stem cell research,
89

Bontems, Roger,
257

Boston Marathon,
20
,
99
,
119
,
249

boxing,
70
,
241
,
245

Boyle, Robert,
250

Brewster, Elizabeth,
155

Brighteyes, Peter John,
231

British Red Cross,
31

Broyard, Alexandra,
296
,
297

Broyard, Anatole,
295

Broyard, Bliss:
One Drop
,
296
,
297

Broyard, Gala,
297

Broyard, Todd,
296

Buffet, Claude,
257

bullfighting,
65
,
243

Burns, Robert: “Tam o’ Shanter,”
228

Bush, George H. W.,
151

Bush, George W.,
93
,
95
,
151

Butler, Carrie,
194

Callender, James Thomson,
304

Cambridge University:
“I Need Feminism” protest at,
40

Canadian Blood Services,
109
,
111

Canadian Diabetes Association,
57

Canadian Paediatric Society,
162

Canadian Red Cross Society,
108

Cangene Corporation,
54

capital punishment,
249
,
254

Caplan, Arthur,
114

Capote, Truman:
In Cold Blood
,
251

Caravaggio,
77
,
84

Carlos, John,
69

Carney, Scott,
229

casta
paintings, Mexican,
188

Castro, Fidel,
149

Castro, Raúl,
149

Caucasian race,
181

Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (Illinois),
95

certificate of degree of Indian blood (U.S. document),
196
,
197

Charles I,
27
,
28

Charles II,
26

Chase-Riboud, Barbara:
Sally Hemings
,
305

chaupadi
(Hindu isolation of menstruating women),
40

Cherokee Freedmen of Oklahoma,
197
,
198

Cherokee Nation,
197

Chinese Exclusion Act (U.S.),
170
,
174

Chown, Bruce,
51

Chown, Samuel Dwight,
185

Cicero,
253

citizenship,
167
; in ancient Rome,
168
; in European Union,
173
; Israeli,
173
;
jus sanguinis
principle of,
168
,
171
;
jus soli
principle of,
168
,
169
; of Obama,
171
; and race,
182
; U.S.,
170
.
See also entry below

citizenship, Canadian,
172
; and deportation of Somali men,
176
; and exclusion of “Asian” British subjects;
182
;
jus soli
principle of,
170
,
172
; and
jus sanguinis
limitations,
172
,
174
;
Komagata Maru
incident and,
182
; Narine-Singh case and,
186
; Shabdeen case and,
167
; and treatment of Japanese-Canadians,
174

Civil Code (France),
170

Clinton, Bill,
95

Coakley, Jenny and Gabriel,
279

Coakley, Maria,
278

Coakley, Marie,
276

Cochran, Doris Hill,
278

Cohen, Adam,
149

Cohen, Leonard,
149

Collins, Suzanne:
The Hunger Games
,
252

Columbia University,
101
,
102

Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada (Krever Commission),
108

components of blood,
14
,
46
,
138
; plasma,
14
; platelets,
14
,
15
,
16
; red blood cells,
14
,
17
; white blood cells,
14
,
15
.
See also individual components

Connaught Laboratories,
52
,
108

Constitution Act: (
1867
),
201
,
212
; (
1982
),
200
,
203

Cool Hand Luke
(film),
218

Cornett, J. W.,
175

Crime and Punishment
(Dostoyevsky),
283
,
285

Cromwell, Oliver,
27

Cronus,
82

Crossroads International,
47
,
134
,
143

cutting, of skin,
26
,
76
; as self-abuse,
261

Davis, Sammy, Jr.,
155

Dawes Rolls (of Native American tribal membership),
198

Dead Sea Scrolls,
221

Declaration of Independence (U.S.),
303
,
305

defining/identifying qualities of blood,
10
,
134
; Aboriginal peoples and,
195
; ancestry and,
135
,
213
; citizenship and,
167
; families and,
142
; identity and,
152
; mixed-race people and,
187
; race and,
179
.
See also specific topics

Delaney, Janice,
36

Deer, Tracey:
Club Native
(film),
211

Democratic Republic of the Congo: genocide in,
270
,
272

Denis, Jean-Baptiste,
30
,
315

Deuteronomy, Book of,
272

diabetes,
46
,
56
,
93
; of author/author’s family,
56
,
58
,
138
; types of,
57

Dictionary of Latin American Racial and Ethnic Terminology
(Stephens),
192

Dionysus, and female followers of,
223

Djandoubi, Hamida,
257

Djerma (language of Niger),
137

DNA
testing,
302
; in criminal cases,
230
,
286
; and familial connections,
180
; and genetic research,
308
; and Jefferson–Hemings case,
303
; kits for,
311
; limitations/reliability of,
310
; mitochondrial,
311
; police data bank and,
231
; and police use of bloodletting,
232
; and white/black ancestry,
213
,
302

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor:
Crime and Punishment
,
283
,
285

Dracula
(Stoker),
261

“Dred Scott” case (U.S. Supreme Court),
170

Drew, Charles Richard,
33
,
100
; and Blood for Britain project,
33
,
102
,
104
; and blood segregation policy,
102
,
105
; death of,
103
; racism toward,
101

Dubin, Charles, and inquiry into use of drugs/banned practices in sports,
122
,
124

Duda, Kelly,
107

duelling,
241

Duncan, Alvin,
302

Duster, Troy,
196
,
311

Dylan, Bob: “Highway
61
Revisited,”
77

Emancipation Day (August
1
),
293

embryos, human, as used in stem cell research,
89
,
92
.
See also
stem cells,
and entries following

Empedocles,
37

Eppes, Martha,
307

erectile dysfunction,
56

Errores Gazariorum
(treatise on heretics),
225

erythroblastosis fetalis.
See
Rh disease

erythrocytes.
See
red blood cells

erythropoietin,
14
,
125

Eskimos, Re
(Supreme Court case),
207

Eucharist/Holy Communion, of Christian ritual,
12
,
142

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute,
161

executions (capital punishment),
249
,
254

Exodus, Book of,
11
,
224

Factor
8
(film),
107

families,
142
; adoption and,
157
,
159
; blood brothers and,
165
; bloodlines and,
147
; identity and,
152
; mixed/dual ancestry and,
152
,
188
; musical/literary,
144
,
148
; non-kinship,
164
; political,
149
,
152
; royal/noble,
147
,
151
; secrets of,
11
,
155
,
276
,
287
; step-relationships and,
152
,
157
,
164

family of author: accomplishments of,
142
; as blended,
152
,
157
; diabetes in,
56
,
58
,
138
; history/secrets of,
146
,
276
; mixed-race ancestry of,
3
,
12
,
135
,
186
,
188
.
See also entries for individual family members