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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Studies in Melanin Pigmentation of the Skin of Racial Crosses in Port Moresby Oceania Volume 33, Number. 4 (June, 1963) pages 287-292 R. J. Walsh New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Sydney, Australia A. V. G. Price Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New Guinea The colour of the skin in…
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The Physical Form of Mississippi Negroes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 16, Issue 2 (October/December 1931) pages 193–201 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330160213 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University Vivian K. Cameron Harriet Smith During the years 1923 to 1927, research was carried on in an attempt to investigate the physical…
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Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease Genome Biology 2002 Volume 3, Number 7 2002-07-01 Print ISSN 1465-6906; Online ISSN 1465-6914 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-7-comment2007 Neil Risch Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California Esteban Burchard Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco, California Elad Ziv Department of Medicine University…
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Mixed: A Mixed Heritage Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-11-09 Nicholas Greitzer America has always been considered a melting pot – a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people. In the 2000 census, for example, this miscegenation resulted in more than 6.8 million Americans self-identifying as multiracial.…
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Cast From Their Ancestral Home, Creoles Worry About Culture’s Future New York Times 2005-10-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent NATCHITOCHES PARISH, La., Oct. 9 – It is peaceful here on the Cane River, beyond the fluffy tops of high cotton and towering magnolia trees, but it is not home. For the New Orleans Creoles living in…
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Because the Numbers Matter: Transforming Postsecondary Education Data on Student Race and Ethnicity to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Nation Educational Policy Volume 18, Number 5 (November 2004) pages 752-783 DOI: 10.1177/0895904804269941 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Christina J. Lunceford, Professor of Education California State…
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Profiles: Samuel Hickson – The Change Agent State University of New York, Brockport 2010-10-28 BS in Sociology, ’10 “My understanding of what is important in life began with my family, who taught me about cultural diversity and having respect for people who are different from me.” Samuel Hickson, a former McNair student, studied the processes…
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Hybrids and History. The Role of Race and Ethnic Crossing in Individual and National Achievement The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 26, Number 4 (December, 1951) pages 331-347 George D. Snell (1903-1996) Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine It is curious to reflect that almost the requisite three or four hundred years have…
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‘Such fine families’: photography and race in the work of Caroline Bond Day Visual Studies Volume 21, Issue 2 (October 2006) pages 106-132 DOI: 10.1080/14725860600944971 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Notre Dame This article examines a collection of family photographs published in an unusual 1932 anthropological study of ‘Negro-White families’. In…