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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Oysters made Hampton man wealthy Daily Press Newport News, Virginia 2013-02-17 Mark St. John Erickson, Columnist Even before the Civil War, Hampton’s busy waterfront boasted many free blacks who made their living as pilots, fishermen and boatmen. Living side by side with whites who worked in the same maritime trades, they included such figures as…
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Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race” Biological Theory July 2012 12 pages DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0048-0 Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Associate Professor of Philosophy Oregon State University Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of California, Santa Cruz It is illegitimate to read any ontology about “race”…
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Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible The New York Times 2013-02-15 Nelson George A black slave is torn apart by dogs as a crowd of white overseers savors the sight and a black bounty hunter watches passively behind shades. A black father makes his little girl crack open a crab with her bare hands…
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Exactly How ‘Black’ Is Black America? The Root 2013-02-11 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Find out the percentage of African ancestry in black Americans. (The Root) — 100 Amazing…
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Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Steven F. Riley 2011-02-28 “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race combinations,” Robert Groves, director of the federal agency, said…
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Racial identity and the law: miscegenation and the “one drop rule” Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-08-05 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History (author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies) Texas State University, San Marcos The “one drop rule” of race refers to the belief that…