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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Author: Steven
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2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box The Huffington Post 2010-03-10 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Robert M. Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, sent me a letter today. Mr. Groves told me that my 2010 Census form will be arriving sometime next week and that my “response…
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Stem Cell Donor Matching for Patients of Mixed Race 2011-04-04 21 pages Ted Bergstrom, Aaron and Cherie Raznick Chair of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Rod Garratt, Professor of Econommics University of California, Santa Barbara Damien Sheehan-Connor, Assistant Professor of Economics Wesleyan University The plight of multiracial leukemia patients who are unable to find…
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In the racial politics of the United States, racial passing refers to a person classified by society as a member of one racial group (most commonly Caucasian / Afro-American heritage) choosing to identify with a different group (usually white) by appearance. The term was used especially in the US to describe a person of mixed-race…
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2010-03-09 Steven F. Riley Like most Americans, we received a letter in the mail yesterday from the US Census Bureau notifying us of the forthcoming census… Most relevant to this website is the option on the form for individuals to select one or more racial designations the potential consequences for public policy. As a result in…
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel Algonquin Books 2010 256 pages ISBN-13: 9781565126800 Heidi W. Durrow This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new…
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Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…