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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African and American Science Magazine Volume 17, Number 418 (1891-02-06) page 78 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-17.418.78 At a meeting of the Canadian Institute, Toronto, Jan. 24, Mr. D. R. Keys, M.A., read on behalf of Mr. A. F. Chamberlain, M.A., fellow in Clark University, Worcester, Mass., a valuable and interesting paper entitled “African and American: the Contact…
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Firman/Furman Family Tracing the Black Presence in Nineteenth-Century Westmorland, New Brunswick Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada 2011 Jennifer Harris, Associate Professor of English Mount Allison University The Furman family, consisting of parents John and Susan L. with their son Ralph, is buried in St. Mark’s Anglican Cemetery, Mount Whatley, as is daughter Mary…
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Normal Families Facing Unique Challenges: The Psychosocial Functioning of Multiracial Couples, Parents and Children The New School Psychology Bulletin Volume 9, Number 1 (2011) Print ISSN: 1931-793X; Online ISSN: 1931-7948 Joshua Wilt Department of Psychology Northwestern University The number of interracial couples in the United States has increased rapidly since anti-miscegenation laws were repealed in…
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Legislation eradicates Dominican “Indians” Dominican Today 2011-11-11 Santo Domingo.—Mulatto, black and white will be the only colors among Dominicans and will be stated thus in the citizens ID cards (cedula), effectively eradicating the nation’s “Indians.” The bill “Dominican Republic Electoral Law Reform” states that in the master file of cedulas the color of Dominicans will…
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The Loving Story – HBO Screening Event Multiracial Network Blog 2012-01-24 It is a rare occasion for Marc Johnston, MRN Chair, and Heather Lou, MRN Incoming Chair, to find themselves in the same city outside of the annual ACPA Convention. So what do these two fun-loving higher education and student affairs administrators choose to do…
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Don Lemon: Legacy of ‘one drop’ rule inspires search for family history Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-29 Don Lemon, Anchor CNN Newsroom This is final installment of a three-part series about the (1)ne Drop Project. Read Don Lemon’s column, “It only takes one drop,” and Yaba Blay’s…