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Authors: Lawrence Hill

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

Nature
(magazine),
98
,
303

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
150

Neill, Richard,
40

Newman, Paul,
218

New York City Marathon,
119

New York Times
,
40
; Broyard's career at,
295

Nietzsche, Friedrich:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
,
234

Niger: author as volunteer worker in,
134

Nixon, Richard,
16

Nolen, Stephanie,
42

Obama, Barack,
95
,
171
,
213

Oklahoma City bombing,
99

Oliver, Percy Lane,
31

Olympic Games,
69
,
70
,
71
,
120
; in London,
67
,
126
,
127
; in Seoul,
120

“one-drop” rule, of black identity,
192
,
213

Ontario Human Rights Commission,
59

Opie, Robert Frederick,
258

Örvar Odd (legendary warrior),
165

Ottenberg, Reuben,
31

Owens, Jesse,
70
,
123

oxygen,
8
,
21
,
214
; anemia and,
46
,
67
,
126
; athletic training and,
72
,
126
,
138
; red blood cells and,
17
,
19
,
21
,
132
,
138

Paley, William S.,
305

Palmater, Pamela,
208

Paris, Erna,
267

Parmenides,
37

“passing,”
287
; from black to Aboriginal,
301
; from black to white,
156
,
293
; as Holocaust survival strategy,
289
; from Jewish to Christian,
289
; from white to black,
287
,
300
.
See also entry below

“passing” (specific examples): by Broyard,
295
; by Grady's father,
293
; by Greene,
295
; by Griffin,
300
; by Hahn Beer,
289
,
293
; by Holocaust children,
291
; by Johnson,
301
; by McBride's Jewish mother,
287
; by Slaney's ancestors,
156

Passover,
11
,
63
; and “blood libel,”
265

Pasteur, Louis,
24
,
50

Patchett, Ann,
88

Paz, Octavio:
Sor Juana; or, The Traps of Faith
,
235
,
237
,
238

Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on,
102
,
174

Pelkey, Arthur,
246

performance-enhancing drugs,
120
,
130
,
132
.
See also
blood doping

Peterson, Merrill,
305

Phelan, Michael L.,
212

Philostratus,
119

phlebotomy.
See
bloodletting

Pick, Alison:
Far to Go
,
155

Pierpont Morgan Library (New York),
295

Pizzato, Mark,
76

plasma,
14
,
16
,
21
,
46
; and blood doping scandal,
129
,
132
; and blood segregation policy,
100
,
102
; donation of,
7
,
53
,
102
,
108
; as increased by heat training,
127
; and Rh immune serum,
53
; storage/transport of,
15
,
33
,
102
; and tainted blood scandal,
108
; water content of,
14
,
132
,
138

platelets,
14
,
15
,
16
,
21
,
46

Plutarch:
Parallel Lives
,
169

poetry/writing: on menstruation,
37
; rhythm of,
12
,
64
,
234
; of Sor Juana,
235
,
237

polycythaemia,
24

power and public spectacle, as associated with blood,
11
,
217
; in animal sports,
65
,
243
,
250
; and “blood purity,”
260
; and Catholic Church persecution,
225
,
235
,
265
; in executions,
249
,
254
; in film violence,
219
,
242
; and forcible blood removal,
222
,
227
,
228
; genocide and,
229
,
269
; and gladiatorial spectacles,
252
; and mob mentality,
219
; murder and,
251
; rituals of,
241
; and senseless killings,
251
; and spectators' call for bloodshed,
219
; in sports,
65
,
241
,
243
; and witch hunting,
221
; women and,
220
,
221
,
235
,
253
,
255
,
261
,
272
.
See also specific topics

Powers, David,
79

Powley, Steven and Roddy: hunting rights case of,
203

Presbyterian Hospital (New York),
33

puerperal fever,
50

race,
179
; arithmetical quantification of,
179
; as artificial concept,
180
; Blumenbach's divisions of,
181
; Caucasian,
181
; citizenship and,
182
.
See also
mixed-race people, definition/categorization of

Racial Integrity Act (Virginia,
1924
),
195

Randolph, Martha Jefferson,
304

rape,
79
,
278
;
DNA
proof of,
231
,
232
; genocide and,
272
; of Gentileschi,
85
; mob impunity and,
220

Red Bear (Bernie Robinson),
215

red blood cells,
14
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
46
,
55
,
138
,
214
; athletic activity and,
116
,
126
,
132
,
138
; blood doping and,
116
,
126
,
132
,
138
; blood transfusions and,
116
,
126
,
138
; body's replacement of,
18
,
21
; hemoglobin in,
18
,
19
,
132
; as oxygen carrier,
17
,
19
,
132
,
138
; percentage of,
118
,
124
,
127
,
129
; and Rh factor,
51

Red Howl Moon (menstrual poetry slam),
37

religion: and bloodletting,
26
; and human sacrifice,
75
; and menstruation,
38
,
234
; and “passing,”
287
; as secret revealed by blood,
287
; and significance of blood,
11
,
63
,
142
,
233
.
See also
Islam; Jews; Judaism; Roman Catholic Church

Rely tampons,
45

Rembrandt van Rijn,
77
,
78

residential school system,
160
,
215
,
273

Rh disease,
51

Rhesus (Rh) factor of blood,
21
,
33
,
51

Ridley, Matt,
97

Riel, Louis,
201
,
203

rituals, as governing bloodshed,
241
; in animal slaughter,
248
; in animal sports,
65
,
243
,
250
; and “blood libel,”
265
; in duelling,
241
; in executions,
249
,
254
; and “first blood,”
242
; in gladiatorial spectacles,
252
; in human sacrifice/suicide,
76
; for men,
35
; in sports,
65
,
241
,
244
; in war,
79
,
84
; and witchcraft/witch hunting,
224

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