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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Looking White, Acting Black: Cast(e)ing Fredi Washington Theatre Survey Volume 45, Issue 1 (2004) pages 19-40 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557404000031 Cheryl Black, Associate Professor of Acting, Theatre History/Theory/Criticism University of Missouri, Columbia In October 1926 a leading African-American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, featured adjacent photographs of two young women with a provocative caption: “White Actresses Who Open…
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Book Review: Go White, Young Man Vanderbilt Law Review Volume 65, En Banc 1 (2012-01-30) 10 pages Alfred L. Brophy, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin…
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Batson Revisited in America’s “New Era” of Multiracial Persons Seton Hall Law Review Volume 33, Issue 1 (2003) Article 3 pages 67-108 John Terrence A. Rosenthal Since two bloods course within your veins, Both Jam’s and Japhet’s intermingling; One race forever doomed to serve, The other bearing freedom’s likeness. —Poem from Jacob Steendam to his…
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Interethnic diversity of NAT2 polymorphisms in Brazilian admixed populations BMC Genetics Volume 11, Number 1 (2010-10-05) pages 87-93 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-87 Jhimmy Talbot Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Luiz Alexandre V. Magno Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Cinthia VN Santana Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e…
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“SAMO© as an Escape Clause”: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Engagement with a Commodified American Africanism Journal of American Studies Volume 45, Issue 2 (May 2011) DOI: 10.1017/S0021875810001738 Laurie A. Rodrigues Department of English University of Rhode Island Heir to the racist configuration of the American art exchange and the delimiting appraisals of blackness in the American mainstream…
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The Free Colored People of North Carolina Southern Workman March 1902 Charles W. Chesnutt From the Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive. This site maintained by Stephanie Browner. In our generalizations upon American history—and the American people are prone to loose generalization, especially where the Negro is concerned—it is ordinarily assumed that the entire colored race was…
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The mystery, myth and marvel of the Melungeons of East Tennessee Chattanooga Parent/North Georgia Parent 2012-01-08 Jennifer Crutchfield Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Even the youngest of us knows that rhyme but there is more to the story of the conquest of the New World and it was a man’s search for clues…
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Free Soldiers of Color The New York Times 2012-02-17 Donald R. Shaffer, Lecturer in History Upper Iowa University and blogger at Civil War Emancipation On Feb. 15, 1862, Louisiana dissolved all its militia units as part of a military reorganization law. Among the organizations disbanded was a militia unique in the Confederacy, the 1st Louisiana…