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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‘The Black Count:’ the epic true story behind ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ The Seattle Times 2012-11-16 Tyrone Beason Tom Reiss’ swashbuckling new book, “The Black Count,” tells the true story of Alex Dumas, son of a French nobleman and an African slave, the father of author Alexandre Dumas and the inspiration for the younger…
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Zakes Mda: The Madonna of Excelsior Muthal Naidoo: Published Books, Plays, Poems and Articles 2011-11-01 Muthal Naidoo (2002. Cape Town. Oxford University Press) The Immorality Act of 1927, which prohibited sex between Blacks and Whites, was amended in 1950 to prohibit sex between Whites and all non-Whites. Zakes Mda bases his novel, The Madonna…
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Indigenous Giles stands by Abbott NT News Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia 2012-11-15 Nigel Adlam TERRITORY indigenous politician Adam Giles has refused to condemn Tony Abbott. Mr Abbott said Alison Anderson was an “authentic representative” of ancient Central Australian culture but mixed-race MP Ken Wyatt was “not a man of culture”. Mr Giles also refused…
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For most of my life, I primarily identified as biracial, multiracial, or mixed, but over the last year, where I’ve encountered more racism and privilege than I have in the 40-something previous years—and that includes 18 years in Virginia—I notice that I’m more likely to identify as Black. This jives with my own dissertation findings…
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“I’m not black,” Joyce said. “I’m multiracial.” Then she started telling me about her father, who happened to be Italian and was the sweetest man in the world; and her mother who happened to be part African and part French and part Native American and part something else. “Why should I have to choose between…
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What is most disturbing about the paradoxical use of race is the effect it may have on the trajectory of ongoing human genetic variation research. By making the moral argument that race-based therapeutics address injustice in health care, and at the same time maintaining that genetics research will ultimately eliminate the need for racial categories,…
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Racializing Drug Design: Implications of Pharmacogenomics for Health Disparities American Journal of Public Health Volume 95, Number 12 (December 2005) pages 2133-2138 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.068676 Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Senior Research Scholar Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Stanford University Current practices of using “race” in pharmacogenomics research demands consideration of the ethical and social implications for understandings…