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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Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.) [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 90, Number 3 (December 2003) page 1107 DOI: 10.2307/3661030 David Rich Lewis, Professor of History Utah State University, Logan Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah.…
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Some anthropological characteristics of hybrid populations The Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 1 (April 1938) pages 21-31 J. C. Trevor, Leonard Darwin Research Fellow It should be explained that “hybrid” is used here in its restricted zoological sense, viz. as relating to intraspecific rather than to interspecific crosses. The adjective “mixed,” though convenient, can be…
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Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas (Eds.), Mixed Race Hollywood, New York University Press, 2008, 325 pp. [Review] International Journal of Communication Issue 4 (2010) pages 139-141 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In the wake of “Obama-mania,” conventional wisdom about racial identity is facing a set of new and unique challenges. It is therefore…
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Adults’ Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Journal of Black Psychology Volume 29, Number 4 (November 2003) pages 463-480 DOI: 10.1177/0095798403256888 Gayle L. Chesley Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia William G. Wagner A between-groups experimental design was used to examine adults’ attitudes toward multiracial children of African descent. The purpose was to determine if the races of the…
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Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of “The Invisible Line” The Christian Science Monitor 2011-02-23 Stacie Williams, Monitor Contributor In “The Invisible Line,” law professor Daniel J. Sharfstein uses the stories of three families to explore the fluid nature of racial identity in America. Race has never been an easy concept in this country; the…
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Mixed-Race Americans Are on the Rise: Will It Change Communications? New York Women in Communications February 2011 In a new series by The New York Times, titled Race Remixed [Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above], reporter Susan Saulny looks at the impact of one of our country’s fastest-growing demographic groups,…