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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

Gates, Henry Louis: on Broyard,
296
,
297
; and genealogical testing,
309
,
311

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 sense 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 (i
PSC
s),
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

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