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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Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2011 pages 203–219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x Mieke Schrooten Anthropology Department Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses…
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Amalgamation, North and South Sacramento Daily Union Volume 24, Number 3619 (1862-11-03) page 4, column 2 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Driven from every other position by the force of argument or the force of facts, the advocates of a doomed system flourish before the eyes of the ignorant the bugbear of amalgamation. Amalgamation, they…
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Are You Ready for the Census? Sacramento Daily Union Volume 19, Number 2862 (1860-05-29) page 1, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection On the first of June, Friday next, the various Deputy Marshals in the different portions of the State will commence their labors in taking the census of the United States, which mast…
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‘The River Between Us’: A story of survival and transformation The Kansas City Star 2013-04-12 Edward M. Eveld It’s the eve of the Civil War in Richard Peck’s novel “The River Between Us,” and the country is rearranging itself for the coming conflict. A prelude to the convulsion plays even in the tiny river-landing town…
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‘Yokohama Yankee’: a family’s lineage in both Japan and America The Seattle Times Books 2013-04-01 David Takami, Special to The Seattle Times ‘Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan’ by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp. Leslie Helm’s remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. At a memorial…
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Principled Expediency: Eugenics, Naim v. Naim, and the Supreme Court The American Journal of Legal History Volume 42, Number 2 (April, 1998) pages 119-159 Gregory Michael Dorr, Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Amherst College In March 1956, the Supreme Court refused to hear Naim v. Naim, a suit contesting the constitutionality…
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Alien Citizen: Review www.ReviewPlays.com ALIEN CITIZEN Asylum Lab 2013-05-13 Jose Ruiz Elizabeth Liang steps on the solo stage to tell the world what it’s like to be a TCK (Third Culture Kid). These are people who, as children, traveled the globe intermittently because their parents were sent to diplomatic, business or military assignments and the…