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 Changing Face of Liverpool 8 Diverse Magazine 2009 Dave Clay Four hundred years of shackles and chains, four hundred years of racist names and institutionalised racist games, Slavepool’s history has got to change “Slavepool” by Eugene Lange AKA Muhammad Khalil My mate, the late and inspirational, John Hill once described Liverpool-born Black people as…
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Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Alabama Law Review Volume 59 (2008) pages 1501-1555 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law This Article examines in detail the local and trial records of a nineteenth-century Texas case to tell the story…
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Suing for Freedom: Interracial Sex, Slave Law, and Racial Identity in the Post-Revolutionary and Antebellum South North Carolina Law Review Volume 82, Issue 2 (January 2004) pages 535- Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law Introduction A. Two Stories In 1823 in Sumner County, Tennessee, Phebe, a “colored woman”…
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Memories of Interracial Contacts and Mixed Race in Dutch Cinema Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007) Pages 69 – 82 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082947 Pamela Pattynama, Professor of Media and Culture University of Amsterdam This essay explores the (post)colonial relationship between the present-day Netherlands and its former colony the Dutch East Indies—a continuing relationship…
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Existential hazards of the multicultural individual: Defining and understanding “cultural homelessness.” Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 5, Number 1 (February 1999) pages 6-26. DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.5.1.6 Veronica Navarrete-Vivero University of North Texas Sharon Rae Jenkins, Professor of Psychology University of North Texas Discusses cultural homelessness (CH), the unique experiences and feelings reported by some…
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Identity and Marginality: Issues in the Treatment of Biracial Adolescents American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Volume 57, Issue 2 (April 1987) pages 265–278 DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1987.tb03537.x Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, Emeritus Professor School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley Teenagers of mixed black and white parentage face peculiar difficulties in the developmental tasks of adolescence. The major…
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Study of HLA antigens of the Martinican population Tissue Antigens Volume 26, Issue 1 (July 1985) pages 1–11 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1985.tb00928.x Nicole Monplaisir Blood Transfusion Center of Martinique Ignez Valette Blood Transfusion Center of Martinique Virginia Lepage Groupe de Recherches d’Immunogenetique de la Transplatation Humaine, INSERM – U 93, Paris, France Veronique Dijon Blood Transfusion Center…