Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Le Mélange of Francophone Culture in William Wells Brown’s Clotel The Undergraduate Review Volume 7, Issue 1 (2011) pages 8-11 Sandra Andrade Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts In Clotel; Or, The President’s Daughter, William Wells Brown argues that for fugitive African American slaves France represented freedom. This connection between African Americans and France that is…
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Indians and Diversity Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-05-03 Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University This term, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about affirmative action in university admissions, where my alma mater is on the side of diversity for a change. Most observers agree diversity is likely to…
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Why genes don’t count (for racial differences in health) American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1699-1702 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1699 Alan H. Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts There is a paradoxical relationship between “race” and genetics. Whereas genetic data were first used to prove the validity of race,…
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Twenty years ago it appeared that mainstream science finally was abandoning the concept of biological human races. From 18th century typologists to 20th century eugenicists, scientists have always been instrumental in justifying the myth that the human species is naturally divided by race.
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“The idea that Hispanic is a coherent genetic category is just silly,” [Jonathan] Kahn said in a telephone interview. “It’s one of the most diverse—genetically and culturally and historically—populations you can find. The idea that it is genetically definable and distinct is just irresponsible.” Rob Stein, “Race reemerges in debate over ‘personalized medicine’,” The Washington…
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A race-based detour to personalized medicine Canadian Medical Association Journal Volume 184, Number 7 (2012-03-12) DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-4133 Roger Collier, News Staff Few experts in medical genetics would argue that June 23, 2005 wasn’t an important day. Consensus on whether it was a good or bad day is another matter. Some claim a major step on…
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Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and a Carnival of Women University of Florida 2006 72 pages Ragan Wicker A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts The Carnival in New Orleans is historically the largest and longest annual public ritual…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment The New York Times 2012-05-04 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University If you are 1/32 Cherokee and your grandfather has high cheekbones, does that make you Native American? It depends. Last Friday, Republicans in Massachusetts questioned the racial ancestry of Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate. Her opponent,…
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Amy Locklear Hertel to Head American Indian Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Indian Country Today 2012-04-29 Tanya Lee Amy Locklear Hertel, newly-selected director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was admonished by her grandmother to pursue her education. “Grandmother told me to get…