Mixed Race Studies

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  • To be both ‘English’ and ‘mixed race’ in the twenty-first century is not a contradiction in terms.

    …One wonders whether any of the interwar eugenists, anthropologists, or biologists, Cedric Dover excepted, could have foreseen that in the twenty-first century to be both ‘English’ and ‘mixed race’ is not a contradiction in terms. And ‘passing’ has nothing to do with it. Lucy Bland, “British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar…

  • Race Crossing

    …Fleming’s use of the term ‘passing’ is also worthy of comment. Not only does it have the connotation of deceit and disguise, but it also implies that the offspring of mixed heritage could never be truly English, despite their birth in England and their English mothers. To cross racial boundaries (‘race crossing’) had two meanings:…

  • Mixed-race women’s experiences…

    Mixed-race women’s experiences cannot be separated from the history of race and gender politics and contemporary racial debates. The history of hybridity is one in which bodies of mixed-race people have been observed, theorized about, and used as evidence in racial power debates, but their individual experiences are often disregarded. Women of mixed heritage, mixed…

  • Obama and Race in America

    Obama and Race in America The Huffington Post 2010-08-06 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In his first major comment on race and race relations in our nation since his “A More Perfect Union Speech” on March 18, 2008, President Barack Obama called for frank discussion about race last week. In both a speech…

  • Race-specific norms for coding face identity and a functional role for norms

    Race-specific norms for coding face identity and a functional role for norms Journal of Vision Volume 10, Number 7, Article 706 (2010-08-02) doi: 10.1167/10.7.706 Regine Armann Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany Linda Jeffery School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Australia Andrew J. Calder MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge,…

  • The Social Position of White and “Half-Caste” Women in Colored Groupings in Britain

    The Social Position of White and “Half-Caste” Women in Colored Groupings in Britain American Sociological Review Volume 16, Number 6 (December 1951) pages 796-802 Sydney F. Collins University of Edinburgh Sociological studies of colored minority groups in Britain have so far been undertaken only on a limited scale. But the ever-widening interest being shown in…

  • Blinded By the Light; But Now I See (Book Review)

    Blinded By the Light; But Now I See Western New England Law Review Western New England College Volume 20, Issue 2 (1998) pages 491-504 Leonard M. Baynes, Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development St. Johns University Introduction In the United States, interracial discrimination…

  • Red and Black – A Divided Seminole Nation: Davis v. U.S.

    Red and Black – A Divided Seminole Nation: Davis v. U.S. Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy University of Kansas School of Law Volume 14, Number 3 (Spring 2006) pages 607-638 Joyce A. McCray Pearson, Director, Law Library and Associate Professor of Law University of Kansas One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history…

  • An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New

    A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave change places for a single night. An interracial marriage turns sour. The birth of a…

  • Building the “Blue” Race: Miscegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian”

    Building the “Blue” Race: Miscegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian” Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2004 pages 149-180 E-ISSN: 1534-7303 Print ISSN: 0040-4691 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2004.0008 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas Toomer’s vision of psychological evolution…