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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Southern Free Women of Color In the Antebellum North: Race, Class, and a “New Women’s Legal History”
Southern Free Women of Color In the Antebellum North: Race, Class, and a “New Women’s Legal History” Akron Law Review Volume 41, 1Number 3 (2007-2008) pages 763-798 Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University I. Configuring Race, Gender, and Class in American Legal History II. African-American Women in the Antebellum United States: Enslaved…
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Biological v. Social Definitions of Race: Implications for Modern Biomedical Research The Review of Black Political Economy Volume 37, Number 1 (2010) pages 43-60 DOI: 10.1007/s12114-009-9053-3 Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro Misconceptions concerning the concordance…
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Ethnogenesis and Ethnohistory of the Seminole Maroons Journal of World History Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 1993) pages 287-305 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles At what historic moment and by what means does a ‘people’ spring into being?” ask Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer Brown in their introduction to the 1985…
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“IndiVisible” Discusses African–Native American Lives Newsdsesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian Institution 2012-01-06 “IndiVisible: African–Native American Lives in the Americas,” a 20-panel display that outlines the seldom-viewed history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native American ancestry, will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the…
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Marriages between African and Native Americans produced many children Louisiana Weekly 2012-01-02 (Healthy Living News) —Native Americans with African ancestry produced more children than ‘full bloods’ in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, a new study demonstrates. Research by Michael Logan, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee shows that increased fertility occurred…
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American Indians with African Ancestry: Differential Fertility and the Complexities of Social Identity Human Ecology Volume 39, Number 6 (December 2011) page 727-742 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-011-9439-2 Michael H. Logan, Professor of Anthropology University of Tennessee, Knoxville Interethnic marriage represents a major trend in the demographic history of American Indians. While the majority of these unions involved Indian…
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Perspective on Mixed-Blood Natives: The Silence of Indian Country Native News Network Native Condition: Analysis and Opinion 2011-09-22 Mike Raccoon Eyes Eastern Band of the Cherokee Quallah, North Carolina SAN FRANCISCO—Cherokee culture was steeped deeply into the great Meso-American pyramid temple cities as early as 800 AD. When the Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans and Aztecs were…
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Glimpse of a Visionary: Jeffrey Campbell ’33 St. Lawrence University Magazine Winter 2006 Steve Peraza ’06 Jeffrey Campbell ’33 is generally thought of as St. Lawrence’s first African-American graduate. In a University Fellowship paper, Steve Peraza ’06, a history and sociology double major from New York City, contends that Campbell deserves to be recognized on…