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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Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (review) Shakespeare Quarterly Volume 63, Number 2 (Summer 2012) pages 244-246 DOI: 10.1353/shq.2012.0017 Virginia Mason Vaughan, Professor of English Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts If you teach Shakespeare’s plays at an American university, college, or secondary school (as I do), and if you’ve ever felt a disconnect between what…
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People Can Claim One or More Races On Federal Forms The New York Times 1997-10-30 Steven A. Holmes The Clinton Administration today adopted new rules for listing racial and ethnic makeup on Federal forms, allowing people for the first time to identify themselves as members of more than one race. The change, which could affect…
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Banneker’s family tree still bears rich fruit The Baltimore Sun 2006-06-12 Gregory Kane And so Molly Welsh, an Englishwoman sentenced to indentured servitude in 17th-century Maryland, wed an African slave named Bannaka. And they begat four daughters, one of whom was named Mary. And Mary wed a slave named Robert, who took her last name,…
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Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture Volume 4, Number 1 (2004) ISSN 1492-7810 Hsu-Ming Teo, Senior Lecturer and Head of Modern History Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the Raj. It argues that these love stories…
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Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…
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A quantitative method of morphological assessment of hybridization in the U. S. Negro-White male crania American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 41, Issue 2 (September 1974) pages 269–278 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330410209 Sudha S. Saksena Department of Sociology and Anthropology Muskingum College [Muskingum University], New Concord, Ohio Portions of this paper are based on a doctoral dissertation…
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Cole Porter Scores An Interracial Couple’s Highs And Lows National Public Radio All Things Considered Music: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection 2012-08-30 NPR Staff As summer winds down, All Things Considered is winding down its series “Music: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection.” For the past few months, the show has asked listeners to tell their…
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The Species Problem: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Racial Inferiority in the Origin of Man Controversy American Anthropologist Volume 72, Issue 6 (December 1970) pages 1319–1329 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00060 John S. Haller, Jr., Emeritus Professor of History Southern Illinois University, Carbondale The species problem and its implications in the origin of man controversy had grown in importance in…