Janis Faye Hutchinson, PhD, MPH is a biological/medical anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, the University of Houston-University Park. Dr. Hutchinson earned a bachelor and master’s degree in anthropology at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and her PhD at the University of Kansas. Her projects focus on African-American Health in contemporary and historical populations, Condom Use, Race, Racism, and Health. Currently she is conducting an oral history study on African American and Creole history in Natchitoches Parish, focusing on traditional medicines and health, plantation life/sharecropping, education, local politics, race/culture, foodways, agriculture, leisure time and social activities as well as daily life. She also works on the Human Genome Project: the impact of new genetic information on health beliefs of Indian Americans (from India) in Houston, Texas. Dr. Hutchinson has published over 20 articles and three books. Her most recent publications include: THE COEXISTENCE OF RACE AND RACISM:CAN THEY BECOME EXTINCT TOGETHER, University Press of America, 2005; and POWER, RACE, AND CULTURE: THE EVOLUTION OF A BLACK ANTHROPOLOGIST, Hamilton Books, 2005.