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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Category: Articles
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Black or White? The New York Times 2011-05-14 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel J. Sharfstein is the author of “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White.” In February 1861, just weeks after Louisiana seceded from the Union, Randall Lee Gibson enlisted as a private…
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Tales of the struggles, successes of the racially mixed [Book Review] The Boston Globe 2011-05-21 Jan Stuart In the final offering of Danzy Senna’s new short story collection, “You Are Free,’’ a racially mixed woman sits in a bustling LA fast-food joint over a plate of macaroni and cheese, counting the mixed-race couples enjoying their…
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From the Curse of Ham to the Curse of Nature The British Journal for the History of Science Volume 40, Issue 3 (2007) pages 367-388 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087407009788 Robert Kenny, ARC Research Fellow The Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles…
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Hawaii is older, more racially mixed, census shows Honolulu Star Advertiser 2011-05-19 Michael Tsai According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest demographic profile of the state, Hawaii is looking a little older, a tad whiter, perhaps a bit lonelier. The bureau is scheduled to release today detailed demographic information collected last year in Hawaii and…
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Mixed race vote key to Cape Town in S. Africa polls The Citizen 2011-05-16 Justine Gerardy Fruit seller Amien Cox will put his hopes on a white woman in South Africa’s local polls on Wednesday, 17 years after the fall of the racist apartheid regime that denied an all-race vote. CAPE TOWN – Fruit seller…
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Mildred Loving The Economist 2008-05-15 Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68 The loved each other. That must have been why they decided to get their marriage certificate framed and to hang it up in the bedroom of their house. There was little else in the bedroom, save the bed. Certainly nothing worth…