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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Half and Half The Cornell Daily Sun Ithaca, New York 2012-03-28 Rebecca Lee Just about the only thing I am looking forward to about graduation is finally being able to meet all of my best friends’ parents. In high school, we knew our friends’ parents almost as well as our own, calling them by their…
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From blanqueamiento to reindigenización: Paradoxes of mestizaje and multiculturalism in contemporary Colombia European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80, (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 5-23 Margarita Chaves, Researcher Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH), Bogotá Marta Zambrano, Associate Professor of Historical Anthropology Universidad Nacional Colombia, Bogotá During the past two…
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Colonial Peru, the Caste System, and the “Purity” of Blood South Americana: The History and Culture of the World’s Most Exotic Continent 2012-03-20 David Gaughran It was the Spaniards who gave the world the notion that an aristocrat’s blood is not red but blue. The Spanish nobility started taking shape around the ninth century in…
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Daniel Sharfstein wins 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Vanderbilt Law School News Vanderbilt University 2012-03-16 Daniel Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has won the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for his sensitive account of the fine line people of mixed race have tread in the United States since the nation’s beginning, The Invisible…
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“Teachable Moments”: The Use of Child-Centered Arguments in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate California Law Review Volume 98, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 121-158 Ruth Butterfield Isaacson, Associate Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick LLP, San Francisco Child-centered arguments have played a central role in debates over expanding marriage rights throughout history. Opponents of interracial marriage…
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Why race still matters Dædalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 102-116 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124460 Ian Hacking, Professor of Philosphy University of Toronto Why has race mattered in so many times and places? Why does it still matter? Put more precisely, why has there been such a pervasive tendency to apply the category of race…