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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Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa Honors A West Coast Black Seminole Leader Indian Voices January 2012 pages 7 & 11 Dr. Bruce Twyman On October 28th, 2011 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa honored the Native American community of Southern California by hosting the cities’ annual American Indian Heritage Month celebration at city hall. A noteworthy and…
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Biracial/Bicultural Identity in the Writings of Sui Sin Far MELUS Volume 26, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 159-186 Vanessa Holford Diana, Professor of English Westfield State Unviversity, Westfield, Massachusetts At the turn into the twentieth century, American culture witnessed related literary and political shifts through which marginalized voices gained increased strength despite the severe racism…
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Unfixing Race: Class, Power, and Identity in an Interracial Family The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 102, Number 3 (July, 1994) pages 349-380 Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., Professor of American Religious History Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Santa Clara University This article is also available as a chapter in Martha Hode’s (ed.) Sex,…
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Gene Flow from White into Negro Populations in Brazil American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 9, Number 4 (December 1957) pages 299–309 P. H. Saldanha Department of General Biology University of Sao Paulo, Brazil GLASS AND Li (1953) have introduced a statistical model that allows calculations to be made, not only of the intermixture between…
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The Interracial Family in Children’s Literature The Reading Teacher Volume 31, Number 8 (May, 1978) pages 909-915 Margo Alexandre Long Books about interracial families have just recently begun to reflect America’s pluralistic society. A Discussion of the interracial family (a family unit in which members are of various racial backgrounds) in American children’s literature must…
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Why Race Isn’t as ‘Black’ and ‘White’ as We Think The New York Times 2005-10-31 Brent Staples People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a “white” name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as “an anchorman’s name” and accused me of making it up. For the record, it’s a…
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Miscegenation and the Free Negro in Antebellum “Anglo” Alabama: A Reexamination of Southern Race Relations The Journal of American History Volume 68, Number 1 (June 1981) pages 16-34 Gary B. Mills (1944-2002), Associate Professor of History University of Alabama, Gadsden More than a quarter-century ago, the southern historian Frank L. Owsley predicted: “If the history…
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Census: Few among Az’s tribes claim to be multiracial Tucson Sentinel 2012-01-26 Victoria Pelham Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The number of American Indians who claimed to be multiracial jumped sharply over the last decade, but not so much in Arizona, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. The bureau said the total number of American Indian…