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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It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage The Straits Times Singapore 2012-01-11 Amanda Tan One in six newborn babies of mixed parentage was registered as having a double-barrelled race last year after a new policy kicked in allowing parents to do so. This full-year figure, released for the first time to The…
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On the Commixture of the Races of Man as Affecting the Progress of Civilisation Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London Volume 3 (1865) pages 98-122 John Crawfurd (1783-1868) AFRICA I continue in this paper the subject of the Commixture of Races, beginning my illustrations with the continent of Africa. The narrow strip of land…
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A Note on the Possibility of Analysing Race Mixtures Into Their Original Elements by the Mendelian Formula The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 41, (January-June, 1911) page 179-199 John Brownlee (1868-1927) Anthropology has thrown much light on the problem of race. What is still wanting, however, is a…
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“African and Cherokee by Choice”: Race and Resistance under Legalized Segregation American Indian Quarterly Volume 22, Numbers 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1998) pages 203-229 Laura L. Lovett, Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst Zora Neale Hurston once boasted that she was “the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s…
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The American Negro Science Magazine Volume 69, Number 1787 (1929-03-29) pages 337-341 DOI: 10.1126/science.69.1787.337 Robert J. Terry (1871-1966), Professor of Anatomy [See: The Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection] Washington University Medical School, St. Louis Under the comprehensive title chosen, it is my intention to discuss a single problem fundamental to studies of the colored…
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Jackie Kay wins Scottish Book of the Year The Edinburgh Reporter 2011-08-26 Creative Scotland is delighted to announce that award winning poet and author, Jackie Kay, has been awarded the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, in partnership with Creative Scotland, for her autobiography Red Dust Road. Jackie Kay received her £30,000…
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Mixed-race People and Emancipation-Era Jamaica Emancipation: The Caribbean Experience Bulding Communities University of Miami Fall 2001 Kiara Bell This website was created by the students of History 300: Caribbean History: Emancipation and Freedom, in Fall 2001 at the University of Miami, with the assistance of the staff of Richter Library’s Archives and Special Collections. Following…