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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The “Common Sense” of Race Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 441-452 Neil Gotanda, Professor of Law Western State University College of Law, Fullerton California In What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, Ariela J. Gross provides a compelling and nuanced account of race in…
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Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries Chapter in: Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment (2009) Springer Part I pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_4 Décio de Alencar Guzmán The author analyses the process of mixing (mestiçagem) in the Rio Negro region during the…
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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9962 September 2003 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity…
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Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South Journal of Population Economics Volume 20, Number 3 (July 2007) pages 599-620 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0111-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate…
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Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents’ Identity and Behavior The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Volume 9, Issue 1 (2009) 44 pages DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1688 Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Susan L. Averett, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Howard N. Bodenhorn, Professor…
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Holistic processing for own-, other- and mixed-race faces is modulated by awareness of race category
Holistic processing for own-, other- and mixed-race faces is modulated by awareness of race category Journal of Vision Volume 11, Number 11 (September 23, 2011) Article 670 DOI: 10.1167/11.11.670 Rachel Robbins, Research Lecturer University of Western Sydney Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University Dilan Perera Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University People are…
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Race Mixture in Hawaii Journal of Heredity Volume 10, Issue 1 (1919) pages 41-47 Vaughan MacCaughey College of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii THE CHINESE The Hawaiian Islands arc remarkable for the diversity of races represented and for the varied conjugal race-mingling which has taken place in this tiny island world during the past hundred and fifty…
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Adlai Murdoch offers a detailed rereading of five major contemporary French Caribbean writers–Glissant, Condé, Maximin, Dracius-Pinalie, and Chamoiseau. Emphasizing the role of narrative in fashioning the cultural and political doubleness of Caribbean Creole identity, Murdoch shows how these authors actively rewrite their own colonially driven history.