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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“The Case Was Very Black against” Her: Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Racial Ambiguity at the “Colored American Magazine” American Periodicals Volume 16, Number 1 (2006) pages 52-73 Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Librarian for History, American Literature, and American Culture University of Michigan When Pauline Hopkins’s short story. “Talma Gordon,” appeared in the October 1900…
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Wikipedia Gets $20M in Annual Fundraising Drive The Associated Press 2012-01-03 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wikipedia has raised $20 million in its annual plea for donations to help expand and improve the Internet’s leading encyclopedia. More than 1 million people contributed the money during a fundraising drive that concluded Sunday. The amount pledged to the…
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Genome Study Points to Adaptation in Early African-Americans The New York Times 2012-01-02 Nicholas Wade, Science Reporter Researchers scanning the genomes of African-Americans say they see evidence of natural selection as their ancestors adapted to the harsh conditions of their new environment in America. The scientists, led by Li Jin of the Chinese Academy of…
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Anglo-Indian legacy slowly disappears in remote forest The Brunei Times 2011-12-20 Ammu Kannampilly Mccluskieganj, India As India inched towards independence, hundreds of mixed-race Anglo-Indians feared for their future and retreated to a self-styled homeland in a thickly forested part of the country. Ernest McCluskie, an Indian of Scottish descent established McCluskieganj in what is now…
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Comparison between two race/skin color classifications in relation to health-related outcomes in Brazil International Journal for Equity in Health Volume 10, Number 1, (2011-08-25) pages 35-42 DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-35 Claudia Travassos Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (ICICT/FIOCRUZ), Avenida Brasil Josué Laguardia Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde…
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Public Mothers: Native American and Métis Women as Creole Mediators in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest Journal of Women’s History Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2003 Special Issue: Revising the Experiences of Colonized Women: Beyond Binaries Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark During the early nineteenth century, the largely Francophone, mixed ancestry residents…
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Assimilation in Eighteenth-Century Senegal John D. Hargreaves, Burnett-Fletcher Professor Emeritus of History University of Aberdeen, Scotland The Journal of African History Volume 6, Number 2 (1965) pages 177-184 Although historians are becoming more aware of the importance of communities of West Africans with experience of European education, institutions and culture, they have so far paid…