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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On Mixed-Racial Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 76, Issue 2 (June 1974) pages 343–344 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1974.76.2.02a00190 G. Harry Stopp, Jr. Louisiana State University In recent articles on American isolates (American Anthropologist 74: 693-7 34) Beale, and Dane and Griessman predicted change for “mixed-racial” communities in the United States stemming from the recent civil rights legislation. They…
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An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 704–710 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00340 Calvin L. Beale Economic Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture The subject of the paper is population groups of real or alleged tri-racial origin—Indian, White, and Negro. There is a…
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Vikings Possibly Carried Native American to Europe Discovery News 2010-11-17 Medieval texts suggest the Vikings arrived in the New World more than 1,000 years ago. THE GIST DNA analysis reveals that four families in Iceland possess genes typically found in Native Americans or East Asians. Genealogical evidence revealed that these families shared a distant ancestor…
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Graduate Student Profile: Chelsea Guillermo-Wann (Education) UCLA Graduate Quarterly University of California, Los Angeles Fall 2010 pages 6-7 Growing up in Santa Barbara, Chelsea Guillermo-Wann started “developing concepts of white and brown” while she was still in grade school, concepts that gave her a different understanding of her white mother and brown father—his heritage both…
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“The Horrid Alternative”: Miscegenation and Madness in the Frontier Romance Journal of American & Comparative Cultures Volume 24, Issue 3 (Fall/Winter 2001) Pages: 137-151 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-4726.2001.2403_137.x Harry J. Brown, Assistant Professor of English DePauw University In a speech delivered to a gathering of Delaware and Mohican Indians, Thomas Jefferson foresaw the destiny of the United…
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Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994 Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 32, Number 3 (September, 2006) pages 467-487 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town This article seeks to explain the basic impulses behind coloured exclusivity in…