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 mixture Eugenics Review Volume 25, Number 3 (October 1933) pages 161–166. K. B. Aikman Abridged from a paper read before the Eugenics Society on June 20th, 1933. The immense advances in the last hundred years in the medical sciences and their application have greatly reduced death-rates, not only in civilized countries, but in savage…
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Political issues involving the right of so-called ‘superior’ races to preserve privileges denied to other races on account of their so-called ‘inferiority’ are tending to darken counsel in the study of racial biology. Another form of political effort is a desire to demonstrate separateness of physical type, so that a subject race may claim autonomy.…
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(Paper read at the ninth meeting, 1930, at he the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations.)
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Half-Caste [Book Review] The Eugenics Review Volume 29, Number 2 (July 1937) pages 141-142 Reviewed by Michael Fielding Dover, Cedric. Half-Caste. London, 1937. Secker & Warburg. Pp. 324. Price 1os. 6d. This book is dedicated to a member of the Council of the Eugenics Society. So if we are a bad lot, as bad as…
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Reggae superstar Bob Marley suffered due to his mixed-race background
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The Mulatto Millennium: Rethinking blackness in a multiracial world Utne Reader September/October 1998 Danzy Senna, from the book Half and Half Strange to wake up and realize you’re in style. That’s what happened to me just the other morning. It was the first day of the new millennium, and I woke to find that mulattos…