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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Recent Decisions: Constitutional Law: Miscegenation Laws Marquette Law Review Volume 48, Issue 4 (Spring 1965) pages 616-620 C. Michael Conter Constitutional Law: Miscegenation Laws: The defendants were convicted under section 798.05 of the Florida statutes, which prohibited nighttime cohabitation of the same room by a Negro and a white of different sexes. On appeal, their…
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Race and Indigeneity in the Life of Elisha Apes Ethnohistory Volume 60, Number 1 (Winter 2013) pages 27-50 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1816166 Nancy Shoemaker, Professor of History University of Connecticut This essay examines cultures of racial categorization in New England and New Zealand through the life of one migrant, Elisha Apes, the younger half-brother of the radical…
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Miscegenation Illustrated Columbus Daily Enquirer Columbus, Georgia 1865-10-27 page 2, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Extracts from a new Book of Travel, by an American Physician. The Mixture of Race in Peru. The aboriginal race was the Indian; and subsequently there came into the country the Spaniard, the negro, and more recently the…
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Interracial Intimacy: Hegemonic Construction of Asian American and Black Relationships on TV Medical Dramas Howard Journal of Communications Volume 23, Issue 3 (2012) pages 253-271 DOI: 10.1080/10646175.2012.695637 Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico This article examines the representations of Black and Asian interracial relationships on prime-time television dramas, ER…
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Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen: review The Telegraph 2013-01-29 Judith Flanders Judith Flanders delves into Deborah Cohen’s ‘Family Secrets‘ As former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan put it so memorably at the Leveson Inquiry, “Privacy is for paedos”. In part, this was no more than a tabloid journalist using words carelessly. If he…
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Anti-Miscegenation Movement Columbus Enquirer-Sun Columbus, Georgia 1886-09-24 page 5, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Organization In Louisiana to Prevent the Intermarriage of Whites and Blacks New Orleans. September 20.—A practical movement has been inaugurated in Bossier parish, in this state, for the abolition of miscegenation. There have been during the past year or…
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Intertextual Links: Reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man College Literature Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2013 pages 121-138 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2013.0004 Robin Miskolcze, Associate Professor of English Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Though literary critics of James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man convincingly…