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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Category: Mexico
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On the Mexican Mestizo Latin American Research Review Volume 14, Number 3 (1979) pages 153-168 John K. Chance, Professor of Anthropology Arizona State Univerisity No one with even a passing acquaintance with the literature on Mexican society, not to mention the rest of Spanish America, can fail to be impressed by the frequent use of…
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Mexico boasts a staggering genetic diversity, study shows Los Angeles Times 2014-06-12 Geoffrey Mohan SHARELINES ▼ DNA offers a nuanced answer to what it means to be Mexican ▼ Ancient genetic signal survived conquest in Mexico ▼ Latino and Hispanic labels don’t do justice to Mexico’s genome Writers, artists and historians have long pondered what…
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Implications of Genetic Diversity in Mexico Biopolitical Times Center for Genetics and Society 2014-06-25 Pete Shanks The category Latino is a valid cultural artifact, and often self-identified. But it’s not really a race in any modern sense of the term, and the genetic evidence surely shows that it is far too broad a grouping to…
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People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity Science 2014-06-12 Lizzie Wade, Latin America Correspondent Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan. That’s the kind of remarkable genetic variation that scientists have now found within Mexico, thanks to…