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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Emmanuelle Saada. Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies The American Historical Review Volume 118, Issue 2 pages 468-470 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/118.2.468 Gary Wilder, Associate Professor of Anthropology The Graduate Center, City University of New York Emmanuelle Saada, Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago:…
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The history of interracial sex: It’s much more than just rape or romance. The Los Angeles Times 2015-09-28 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Carina Ray is associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University and the author of “Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex,…
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An Ohio town where races have mixed freely for more than 200 years The Washington Post 2015-09-26 Kevin Williams Connor Keiser, 22, left, shows his album of historic photos of Longtown to James Jett, 90 at Bethel Long Wesleyan Church. (Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post) Amid the corn and soybean fields of western Ohio lies…
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The Fabulous World of Harumi Klossowska de Rola The New York Times Magazine 2015-09-22 Hilary Moss “Benoît, my partner, took this photo in 2013 in front of the Grand Chalet, which was a hotel until my father bought it. It is still loaded with thousands of books and even old skis from English clients. My…
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What Makes Black Men Run From the Police? The Root 2015-08-27 Will Jawando Your Take: A good, hard look at the statistics will tell you why African Americans have reason to fear an encounter with police. t’s never much of a surprise when I hear it, but it stings all the same. Freddie Gray would…
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The Roanes of Virginia: 2 families with the same surname. Are they related or not? Genealogy Adventures 2015-09-20 Brian Sheffey What could possible be confusing about two immigrant families coming from the same region in Europe and landing in the US around the same time? When it comes to pre-Revolutionary War Era Roane family…there’s plenty.…
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The 1965 Act at 50 Adam S.I. Goodman 2015-09-24 Adam Goodman President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Hart-Celler Act, 3 October 1965, Liberty Island, NY, NY. (Photo credit: LBJ Presidential Library/Yoichi Okamoto) Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the 1965 Immigration Act. By eliminating the discriminatory national-origins quota system, the Act created…