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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Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America University of Michigan Press 2006 208 pages 6 x 9; 11 Tables & 8 Figures. Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03280-8 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science; Academic Director of the Center for Women, Politics & Policy at the Hatfield School of Government Portland State University, Portland,…
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Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana… Octoroon means a person of fourth-generation black ancestry. Genealogically, it means one-eighth black. Typically an…
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Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana… …Quadroon usually referred to someone of one-quarter black ancestry; that is, with three white grandparents…
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“Biracial Women in Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race” examines how physical appearance, cultural knowledge, and cultural stereotypes affect the experience of mixed-race women in belonging to, and being accepted within, their cultures.
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Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…
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How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s “Black, Jewish, and Interracial.”
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American Anthropological Association Statement on “Race” 1998-05-17 The following statement was adopted by the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, acting on a draft prepared by a committee of representative American anthropologists. It does not reflect a consensus of all members of the AAA, as individuals vary in their approaches to the study of…
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Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States Westview Press 1999-08-12 240 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0813336775; ISBN-13: 978-0813336770 Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas Recent times have seen the rise of a movement lobbying for explicit recognition of multiracial identity as…