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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“Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’ Must Be Helped! Will You?”: U.S. Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-1955 Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring 2003) pages 342-362 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0052 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria This essay explores the debate that arose around the adoption of Black German children by African American parents and…
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Pigmentocracy Freedom’s Story: Teaching African American Literature and History National Humanities Center April 2010 Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, Emerita University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Definition and Background In the past couple of decades, the word pigmentocracy has come into common usage to refer to the distinctions that people of African…
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“The Last Stand”: The Fight for Racial Integrity in Virginia in the 1920s Richard B. Sherman, Chancellor Professor of History College of William and Mary The Journal of Southern History Volume 54, Number 1 (February, 1988) pages 69-92 By the 1920s many southern whites had come to believe that the race question was settled. White…
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The Origins, Current Status, and Future Prospects of Blood Quantum as the Definition of Membership in The Navajo Nation Tribal Law Journal University of New Mexico School of Law Volume 8 (2007-2008) pages 1-17 Paul Spruhan, Law Clerk Navajo Nation Supreme Court, Window Rock, Arizona In this article, the author discusses the origin of the…
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Tribal Kulturkampf: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity Seton Hall Law Review Volume 35, Number 4 (2005) pages 1241-1260 Carla D. Pratt, Associate Professor of Law Pennsylvania State University I. INTRODUCTION “Law is embroiled in the politics of identity. It names parties, defines their speech and conduct, and assigns their rights…