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
Ferdinand and Isabella (Catholic Monarchs of Spain), 268
Fields, Richard S., 232
Findlay, Paula, 67, 126
First Blood (film), 242
First Nations, 200, 203, 205, 206, 207, 213; blood quantum of, 208; genocide of, 273; and Inuit, 207; lost languages of, 215; and removal/adoption of children, 159; and residential schools, 160, 215, 216, 273; and women’s status, 209
Fisk, Robert, 80
Flateau, Jeanne Hill, 146, 277
Food and Drug Administration (U.S.), 114
For Your Eyes Only (film), 218
fox hunting, 65, 250
France, 227, 272; citizenship of, 169; early blood transfusion attempts in, 29; Jefferson and Hemings in, 304, 307; Jewish children sent to, 291; and tainted blood donations, 109, 110, 111, 314; use of guillotine in, 254. See also Tour de France
Francis, Charlie, 122
Freedman, Beatrice, 152, 157
Freedman, Eve, 157
Freeman, Kyle, 112
Frost, Robert: “Blood,” 66
Furies, 83
Gaia, 82
Galen, 23, 37, 148, 152
Gandhi, Indira, 149
Gareau, Jacqueline, 119
Garrard, Mary, 86
Gaskill, Malcolm, 224, 226
gay blood donors, ban on, 109; in Canada/other countries, 110, 112; and celibacy requirement, 110, 111; negative consequences of, 112; opposition to, 112, 114
General Allotment Act (U.S., 1887), 196
Genesis, Book of, 77
genetic research, 308; Duster’s work on, 311; Gates’s work on, 309; kits for, 311; limitations/reliability of, 310; and mitochondrial DNA, 311
genocide, 269; of Aboriginal peoples, 270, 273; Biblical, 272; as “ethnic cleansing,” 270; etymology of, 271; examples/history of, 270, 271; of Holocaust, 105, 229, 270, 288; rape and, 272; in Rwanda, 270. See also Holocaust
Gentileschi, Artemesia, 85; and Judith Slaying Holofernes, 84
George III, 305
Germany, 173, 227, 272. See also Holocaust
Ghana: familial (non-kinship) ties in, 164
gladiatorial spectacles, 252
glucose, 6, 14, 21, 32; and diabetes, 46, 57; high levels of, 47, 61; low levels of, 58
Goldberg, Whoopi, 309
Goldman, Ronald, 286
Goya, Francisco: Saturn Devouring His Son, 83
Grady, Wayne: Emancipation Day, 293
Grant, Ulysses S., 278
Grealy, Lucy, 88
Greene, Belle da Costa, 295
Griffin, John Howard: Black Like Me, 300
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 227
Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace, 257
guillotine, as used in France, 254
Gumilla, José, 190
Guterman, Mark A., Payal Mehta, and Margaret S. Gibbs, 38
Hahn Beer, Edith, 289, 293
Haley, Alex: Roots, 136
Hamilton, Tyler, 124, 129
“Hansel and Gretel,” 227
Harper, Stephen, 184
Harry Potter books (Rowling), 260, 262, 265
Harvey, William, 28
Hayashi, Ichizo, 79
Hebrews, Book of, 234
Heller, Joseph: Something Happened, 55
Héma-Québec, 109, 111
hematocrit, 118, 124, 127, 129
Hemings, Betty, 307
Hemings, Eston, 306, 307
Hemings, Sally, 303; children of, 303, 306, 307; as half-sister of Jefferson’s wife, 306. See also Jefferson, Thomas, and relationship with Sally Hemings
hemochromatosis, 24
hemoglobin, 18, 19, 24, 280; and athletic activity, 20, 118, 127, 132
hemophilia, 46, 56, 107
hepatitis C, 107, 110, 115
Herodotus, 25
Hicks, Thomas, 120
Hill, Andrew, 56, 158
Hill, Caroline, 56
Hill, Dan, 3, 4, 146, 187; health issues of, 57, 87; success of, 142, 148
Hill, Daniel G., 146
Hill, Daniel G. II, 57, 146, 276. See also Coakley, Marie
Hill, Daniel G. III, 3, 5, 12, 135, 142, 146, 148, 156, 186, 217; death of, 57; expectations of, 147; as Ontario Ombudsman, 58; and sens
e of black kinship, 165; as sports fan, 70
Hill, Donna, 2, 3, 12, 217; and Narine-Singh case, 185
Hill, Geneviève, 56, 164, 264
Hill, Karen, 3, 4, 35, 146
Hill, May Edwards, 276
Hill, Miranda, 153, 158
Hincapie, George, 129
Hippocrates, 22, 91, 148, 152
Hitler, Adolf: Mein Kampf, 288
HIV, 107; and AIDS, 109, 134, 138, 272; and gay blood donor ban, 109. See also gay blood donors, ban on; tainted blood scandal
Hjalmar (legendary warrior), 165
hockey, fighting in, 65, 244
Holocaust, 105, 270; “blood purity” and, 154, 212, 263, 288, 313; medical experiments of, 229; and “passing,” as survival strategy, 289, 294; rape and, 272; saving of children from, 155, 291
Holofernes (Assyrian general), 84
Holyfield, Evander, 247
honour killings, 80
Howard University, 101, 103
humours, of body, 22, 148
human sacrifice, 75; by Aztecs, 76; by Mayans, 76; and story of Abraham and Isaac, 77; by Zapotecs, 76
The Hunger Games (Collins), 252
hypodescent (“one-drop” rule), 192, 213
iambic pentameter, 12, 64
Ibarra, José de, 190
ichor, 82, 87
identity, 153; Aboriginal, 195; adoption and, 157, 159; black, 152, 156; Canadian census definitions of, 199; familial (non-kinship), 164; Jewish, 152; Métis, 200, 212; step-relationships and, 152, 157, 164
Immigration Act, 183
India, 24, 244, 149; blood trafficking in, 229; and Komagata Maru incident, 182; “sanitary-napkin man” of, 42
Indian Act, 208
Indian Arts and Crafts Act (U.S.), 196
Indian Institute of Technology, 43
Indians. See First Nations; Native peoples
induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), 96
In Search of Our Roots (Gates), 309
insulin, 14, 22, 93; and diabetes, 46, 47, 57, 60, 61, 138
International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts, 286
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 178
Inuit, 200, 203, 205, 213; Supreme Court case involving, 207
iron, 18, 24, 68
Islam, 24, 26, 38, 142; honour killings of, 81; in Spain/Iberian Peninsula, 225, 266, 288, 313
“Jack and the Beanstalk,” 250
Jama, Saeed, 176
James (the Greater), Saint, 269
James, Bridie, and Martin Daly, 81
Japan: atomic bombing of, 91; and attack on Pearl Harbor, 102, 174; ritual suicide in, 79; stem cell clinical trial in, 97
Japanese-Canadians, internment/deportation of, 174
Jefferson, Thomas, and relationship with Sally Hemings, 303; children born of, 303, 306, 307; DNA proof of, 303, 308; and Jefferson’s anti-slavery stance, 305; journalist’s exposure of, 304
Jeruchim, Simon, 291
Jesus Christ, 11, 142
Jews: as accused of killing Christians, 265, 271; as allowed Israeli citizenship, 173; “blood purity” of, 154, 264, 265, 288, 313; Catholic/Spanish persecution of, 225, 265, 313; as converted to Judaism, 155; as converting to Christianity, 267; as Holocaust victims, 229, 270; identity of, 152; matrilineal ancestry of, 152, 155; “passing” as black, 287; “passing” to survive Holocaust, 155, 289, 294; Shylock’s case for, 63. See also Judaism
Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, 105
Johnson, Ben, 120, 130, 132; Olympic victory of, 120, 123; public shaming of, 121, 123; steroid use by, 120, 123
Johnson, Ira, 301
Jones, Isabella, 301
Jordan, Marc, 149
Juana, Sor (Juana Inés de la Cruz), 235; Answer of, 236, 237, 238; background of, 236; Catholic Church persecution of, 235, 238; and life of letters, 235, 237; Paz as biographer of, 235, 237, 238; as poet/playwright, 235, 237; and renunciation signed in blood, 235, 239; on Spanish Inquisition, 265; translations of poems by, 237; as victim of plague, 235, 239
Judaism, 26, 84, 221; conversion to, 155; matrilineal ancestry of, 152, 155; and menstruation, 39, 234; Passover story/tradition of, 11, 63. See also Jews
Judith and Holofernes, 84. See also Gentileschi, Artemisia
Justice, Daniel Heath, 199
Kahnawake (Québec), 211
kamikaze pilots, 79
Katzew, Ilona: Casta Painting, 188
Keino, Kipchoge, 71
Kennedy, Edward M. (Ted), 149
Kennedy, John F., 149
Kennedy, Robert F. (Bobby), 149
kidney dialysis, 46, 58
Kiernan, Ben, 271
Kim Duk-Koo, 246
Kim Il-sung, 150
Kim Jong-il, 150
Kim Jong-un, 150
Kimelman, Edwin, 160, 161
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 106
Kleinman, Lida (later Lidia Siciarz), 291
Kobler, William, 114
Koch, Robert, 24
Komagata Maru incident, 182
Korean War, 33
Kramer, Heinrich: Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), 226
Krever, Horace, and Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada, 108
Ku Klux Klan, 301
Landis, Floyd, 116, 129
Landsteiner, Karl, 31, 98
Last Supper, 11, 142
Lawson, Cheryl, 54
leeches, use of, 24
Le Franc, Martin: Le Champion des Dames, 225
Lemkin, Raphael, 271
Lennon, John, 149
Lennon, Julian, 149
leukemia, 46, 90, 315
leukocytes. See white blood cells
Levêque, Auguste: Bacchanalia, 223
Leviticus, Book of, 26, 39, 234, 266
Lewis, Carl, 120
Lilith (Judaic demoness), 221
Lilitu (Sumerian demoness), 221
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), 146
literature: author’s career in/works of, 144, 193, 277; “blood purity” theme in, 260, 262, 265; and rhythm of poetry/writing, 12, 64, 234; vampires in, 260; witches in, 227
Livy, 224
Logan, Lara, 220
London, Jack: The Call of the Wild, 244
Louis XVI, 255
Louis, Joe, 70
Love, Spencie, 101, 104
Lown, Bernard, 105
lymphocytes, 15
lymphomas, 46, 90
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 282, 284, 285
Mackenzie, Ian, 175
Macklin, Audrey, 173, 177
Madison, Dolley, 306
Madison, James, 306
maenads, 223, 239
Maimonides, 26
malaria, 47, 314
Malleus Maleficarum (Kramer), 226
Malmström, August: Örvar Odd Informs Ingeborg about Hjalmar’s Death, 166
Mancini, Ray, 246
Manitoba Act, 201
Marie Antoinette, 255
Marius, Raymonde, 53
Martel, Émile: Écrits profanes: un choix de textes (translations of poems by Sor Juana), 237
MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) units, 33
Mauroy, Antoine, 30
Mayo Clinic, 101
McBride, James: The Color of Water, 287
McCarty, Luther, 246
McClintock, Martha, 38
McCulloch, Ernest, 94
McPherson, Tara: Lilitu, 222
McPhillips, Albert E., 183
Medea, 82
megakaryocytes, 16. See also platelets
Mengele, Josef, 229
menstruation, 34, 142, 234; bloodletting and, 25; a
s “Curse,” 40; and lack of cleanliness/purity, 38, 42; men and, 40; poetry slam on, 37; as proof of inferiority, 36; as religious taboo, 38, 234; safe/effective products for, 42; synchrony of, 38
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 63
Merlet, Agnes: Artemisia, 85
Meslin, Eric M., 25
Métis, 200; census racialization of, 200; as considered “half-breeds,” 200; as defined by blood quantum, 204; distinct culture/language of, 206, 212; and Powley hunting rights case, 203; and removal/adoption of children, 160; Riel on proper description of, 201; as ruled to be “Indians,” 212
Mexico, caste system of, 187; casta paintings of, 188
Meyer, Stephenie, 260
Miles for Millions (walkathon), 71, 73
Milne, A. A.: “Disobedience,” 13
miscegenation, 188, 195; Hitler on, 288; Jefferson on, 305, 306
Missouri v. McNeely (U.S. case), 233
mitochondrial DNA, 311
mixed-race people, definition/categorization of, 187; African ancestry and, 191, 195; American Indians and, 195; under apartheid system, 191, 193; author’s family and, 3, 12, 135, 186, 188; in Canadian census, 199; First Nations and, 200, 206, 207; Inuit and, 207; as irrelevant for Aboriginal peoples, 199, 200, 206, 310; as irrelevant to humanity, 207, 213; in Latin American dictionary, 192; Métis and, 200, 212; Mexican caste system and, 187; Obama and, 213; and “one-drop” rule, 192, 213; terminology of, 144, 187, 299, 307; Thurmond and, 194
Morgan, J. P., 295
mosquitoes, 3, 4, 24; as disease carriers, 47, 48, 221, 314
Moussa (coffee vendor befriended by author in Niger), 137
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 27
Mubarak, Hosni, 220
murder, 30, 65, 169; as “blood on one’s hands,” 282; DNA testing and, 231, 286, 311; as entertainment, 252; in films, 220, 242; as genocide, 269; honour killings as, 80; as senseless, 251; of Spanish Jews/Muslims, 225, 265, 313; of wives/ex-wives, 81, 253; by witches/demonesses, 221, 224; by women, 82
Muruganantham, Arunachalam, 42
Muslims, Spanish persecution of, 225, 265, 313. See also Islam
Myrdal, Gunnar, 193
Napoleon Bonaparte, 27
Narine-Singh, Harry, 186
National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW), 160
National Cancer Act (U.S.), 16
National DNA Data Bank (RCMP), 231
National Institutes of Health (U.S.), 90
National Rifle Association, 253
Native Canadian Centre (Toronto), 215
Native peoples: American, 195; Canadian, 200, 203, 205, 206, 207, 213; as defined by blood quantum, 196, 208; genocide of, 273; legislation governing, 195, 208; as mixing with other “races,” 197, 200, 212; “status”/“non-status,” 208. See also First Nations