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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Identity Notes Part One: Playing in the Light American University Law Review Volume 45, Number 3 (February 1996) pages 695-720 Adrienne D. Davis, Vice Provost; William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law Washington University in St. Louis What parts do the invention and development of whiteness play in the construction of what is loosely described…
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Biracialism in American Society: A Comparative View American Anthropologist Volume 57, Issue 6 (December 1955) pages 1253–1263 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1955.57.6.02a00150 Ruth Landes Our culture exercises certain values forcefully through our interracial arrangements, principally Negro and white. Comparison with other white-governed societies receiving Negroes reveals the uniqueness in American developments, above all in the operations of Negro…
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Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians Parallax Volume 13, Number 2 (2007) pages 6-20 DOI: 10.1080/13534640701267123 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Not so long ago, the question ol the racial identity of the Ancient Egyptians passed beyond the narrow…