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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Prematurity and Low Birth Weight as Potential Mediators of Higher Stillbirth Risk in Mixed Black/White Race Couples Journal of Women’s Health Volume 19, Issue 4 (2010-04-26) pages 767–773. DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2009.1561 Katherine J. Gold, M.D., M.S.W., M.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Sonya M. DeMonner, M.P.H. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs…
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Racial Passing in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Philip Roth’s The Human Stain A Vertentes Universidade Federal de São João del Rei Volume 19, Number 2 13 pages Maria Luiza Cardoso de Aguiar Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais The so-called racial passing is defined, mainly, as a phenomenon through which…
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The Correspondence Between Interracial Births and Multiple-Race Reporting American Journal of Public Health Volume 92, Number 12 (December 2002) pages 1976–1981 Jennifer D. Parker, PhD Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland Jennifer H. Madans, PhD, OD Co-Deputy Director / OD Associate Director for Science / OPBL Associate…
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Interracial births in Baltimore, 1950-1964 Public Health Reports Volume 81, Number 11 (November 1966) pages 967-971 Sidney M. Norton, Director of the Bureau of Vital Records Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland Also Assistant, Department of Chronic Diseases School of Hygiene and Public Health Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland During the course of routine, periodic…
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Interracial marriages in Maryland Public Health Reports Volume 85, Number 8 (August 1970) pages 739-747 Sidney M. Norton, Director of the Bureau of Vital Records Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland Also Lecturer, Department of Chronic Diseases School of Hygiene and Public Health Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland A Statistical Report Nullification of all miscegenation…
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When Ethnic Ambiguity Becomes a Privilege SunDryed Affairs 2011-06-08 Wendell Hassan Marsh Taking a look at recent box office results, it is the ethnically ambiguous star and ambiguously ethnic films that appear to be making bank. Ambiguity reaches around and hugs the color line while supporting the weight of overlapping identities. It’s not a question…
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Racial Identity and the Shadow of Jim Crow in the Black Community (1)ne Drop Project 2013-10-07 Kimberly Bernita Ross Michigan State University My grandmother Bernice was born in New Orleans in 1918 to a Black mother and a White father at a time when interracial marriage was illegal. Her mother, Roseanna, a maid in a…
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Tell Me a Story: Genomics vs. Indigenous Origin Narratives GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 26, Number 4, Religion & Genetics (Aug-Oct 2013) pages 11-13 Kim TallBear, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin On April 13, 2005 the Indigenous Peoples’ Council on Biocolonialism issued a press release opposing the Genographic Project, which aimed…
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New recognition for first black U.S. doctor with medical degree American Medical News 2010-11-08 Kevin B. O’Reilly Dr. James McCune Smith’s descendants unveiled a new headstone in a ceremony to commemorate his achievements as a physician, essayist and abolitionist. The New York City burial site of the nation’s first black medical degree-holder received a new…