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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Race and Genomics. Old Wine in New Bottles? Documents from a Transdisciplinary Discussion NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Volume 16, Number 3 (August 2008) pages 363-386 DOI 10.1007/S00048-008-0301-6 Staffan Müller-Wille ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society University of Exeter Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin, Germany From July 25 to 29,…
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Studied in race crossing VI. The Indian remnants in Eastern Cuba Genetica Volume 27, Number 1 (1954) pages 65-96 DOI: 10.1007/BF01664155 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University A preliminary account was given at the 30th International Americanist Congress, Cambridge, England, August, 1952. Received for publication July 27, 1953 This paper is in one…
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A Mystery of a People WUNC 91.5, Chapel Hill The State of Things North Carolina Public Radio 2011-07-28 Isaac-davy Aronson, Host Questions of racial identity and cultural heritage have long surrounded a group of Appalachians called the Melungeons. In recent years, curiosities have been piqued about this loosely connected group of people, spawning DNA testing,…
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Op-Ed: Moving Beyond Race-Based Health The Herald-Sun Durham, North Carolina 2008-08-22 Susanne Haga, IGSP Scholar, Assistant Research Professor Duke Institute for Genome Science & Policy At a time when genetics research continues to reveal just how similar we all are, it’s frustrating to see the continued reliance on race as a basis to treat individuals…
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The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry Nature News Nature Magazine 2008-11-13 Brendan Maher Charmaine Royal of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy explains the limitations of genetic testing. Ancestry testing is genetics’ most direct and sometimes tempestuous interaction with personal identity. An estimated half-a-million Americans will purchase genetic tests from companies this year…
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The Film You Didn’t See – Who’s the Alien, Cowboy? Cultural Weekly 2011-08-25 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ulli K. Ryder, Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University Chances are you didn’t see Cowboys and Aliens. The film won’t get to $100 million box office in…
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The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875-1935 Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 23, Number 3 (2002) pages 29-54 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2003.0009 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln At a lavish wedding and reception in New York…
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Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? Western American Literature Volume 36, Number 3 (Fall 2001) pages 212-231 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln Since the…