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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Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil Flow Volume 17 (2012-12-18) Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan In this three part series of essays I will consider some of the aspects of race and visuality in Brazil. This article will lay out…
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‘Show Boat’ Steams On, Eternally American All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-05-07 Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent It’s been more than eight decades since Show Boat — the seminal masterpiece of the American musical theater — premiered on a stage in Washington, D.C. Now the sprawling classic is back, in a lush production put…
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A German doctor [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach] in 1776 divided the human species into five races. Today, nearly two and a half centuries later, these are the same five races into which the U.S. Census divides the American population, making America the only country in the world firmly wedded to an eighteenth-century racial taxonomy. Embedded in…
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State of Race 2013: Presentation on the Demographics of Race The Aspen Institute Washington, D.C. 2013-04-24 Presenter: Paul Taylor, Executive Vice-President and Director of Social and Demographic Trends Project Pew Research Center
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The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project New York University Press May 2013 303 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814790687 Kelly E. Happe, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Women’s Studies University of Georgia In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome,…
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Counting The People San Francisco Call Sunday, 1890-06-01 page 6, column 7 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Some of the Inquires to Be Made by the Census Enumerators in June The eleventh census of the United States will be taken during the month of June. The census enumerators will begin their work on to-morrow, and…
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A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 Duke University Press 2007 256 pages 29 illus., 8 tables, 1 map Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4081-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4060-7 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature…