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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White Teeth: A Novel Vintage an imprint of Random House 2001-06-12 464 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70386-7 (0-375-70386-1) Zadie Smith On New Year’s morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie–working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt–is calling…
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A Reappraisal of the Constitutionality of Miscegenation Statutes Cornell Law Quarterly Volume 42, Issue 2 (Winter 1957) pages 208-222 Andrew D. Weinberger, LL.B., D. HUM, Member of the New York Bar, New York City & Visiting Professor of Law Nationzal University of Mexico Today [in 1957], 21 States of the Union by statute forbid marriages…
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Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Pantheon an imprint of Random House 1998-06-09 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70011-8 (0-375-70011-0) Edited by Claudine C. O’Hearn As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one’s identity or…
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Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 32 May 2009 37 pages Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School Can Louisiana tell us something about civil law vs. common law regimes of slavery? What can…
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“The Caucasian Cloak”: Mexican Americans and the Politics of Whiteness in the Twentieth-Century Southwest The Georgetown Law Journal Volume 95, Issue 2 Pages 337-392 Ariela J. Gross, Professor of Law and History University of Southern California Law School The history of Mexican Americans and Jim Crow in the Southwest suggests the danger of allowing state…
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Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology News & Events York Univeristy, Toronto, Ontario 2010-01-28 The technology to turn oneself into a mixed-race avatar might be confined to movies, but Brian Banton plays with racial manipulations of himself online, wrote the Toronto Star (online) Jan. 27 [2010] in a story that included five photos…
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Multiracial Matrix: The Role of Race Ideology in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws, a United States – Latin America Comparison Cornell Law Review Volume 87, Number 5 (July 2002) Cornell University Law School Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University This Article examines the role of race ideology in the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. Professor…