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: Articles
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One tribe’s long struggle for full recognition
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EVERY third year pupil in Scotland is to be schooled on Scotland’s slave past thanks to a new graphic novel.
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The book has a special resonance for me as a comparative-race law scholar whose personal background as a black-identified mixed-race Afro-Latina traveling the globe informs her insights about the (in)significance of the growth of racial mixture to the pursuit of racial equality whether it be in the US, South Africa, or Latin America.
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Anita Florence Hemmings graduated from Vassar in 1897. But though she was an excellent student, she came very close to not getting her degree at all. That was because just days before graduation, Anita’s roommate uncovered her deepest secret.
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This article will criticize this binary, detailing a theory of race in which colonialism and racism are prior to racial formation, following Patrick Wolfe and Michael Omi and Howard Winant.
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Black on the Outside, White on the Inside: Peter Abelard’s Use of Race Critical Philosophy of Race Volume 6, Issue 2, 2018 pages 135-163 DOI: 10.5325/critphilrace.6.2.0135 Colleen Mccluskey, Professor of Philosophy Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri In his reply to Heloise’s complaints in the fourth of the so-called personal letters, Peter Abelard (a twelfth-century…