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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Why genes don’t count (for racial differences in health) American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1699-1702 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1699 Alan H. Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts There is a paradoxical relationship between “race” and genetics. Whereas genetic data were first used to prove the validity of race,…
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Twenty years ago it appeared that mainstream science finally was abandoning the concept of biological human races. From 18th century typologists to 20th century eugenicists, scientists have always been instrumental in justifying the myth that the human species is naturally divided by race.
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A race-based detour to personalized medicine Canadian Medical Association Journal Volume 184, Number 7 (2012-03-12) DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-4133 Roger Collier, News Staff Few experts in medical genetics would argue that June 23, 2005 wasn’t an important day. Consensus on whether it was a good or bad day is another matter. Some claim a major step on…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment The New York Times 2012-05-04 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University If you are 1/32 Cherokee and your grandfather has high cheekbones, does that make you Native American? It depends. Last Friday, Republicans in Massachusetts questioned the racial ancestry of Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate. Her opponent,…
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Amy Locklear Hertel to Head American Indian Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Indian Country Today 2012-04-29 Tanya Lee Amy Locklear Hertel, newly-selected director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was admonished by her grandmother to pursue her education. “Grandmother told me to get…
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Going Viral: Stedman’s Narrative, Textual Variation, and Life in Atlantic Studies Romantic Circles Praxis Series Circulations: Romanticism and the Black Atlantic October 2011 47 paragraphs Dustin Kennedy English Department The Pennsylvania State University The current multiplex configuration of Stedman’s Narrative emerged in 1988, the result of Richard and Sally Price’s new scholarly edition. The Prices’…
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Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832 American Historical Review Volume 111, Number 2, 2006 pages 336-361, 44 paragraphs Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio During the Age of Revolution, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with…
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African-Scottish families A North East Story: Scotland, Africa and Slavery in the Caribbean 2008 This exhibition has been organised by an Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Bicentenary Committee to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Britain’s outlawing of the African slave trade in 1807. It follows on from a service of commemoration and a series of public lectures…