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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“White Negroes” in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law The Journal of Southern History Volume 64, Number 2 (May, 1998) pages 247-276 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Not until David L. Cohn returned to his native Mississippi after an absence of two decades did he understand the…
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The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation The Journal of Negro Education Volume 20, Number 4 (Autumn, 1951) pages 547-557 Sidney Kaplan, Instructor In English University of Massachusetts From the moment of its birth the American democracy has appeared to some of its best champions as the perfect subject for Aristotelian tragedy. Could…
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Miscegenation Anthropological Review Volume 2, Number 5 (May, 1864) pages 116-121 During the last two months there have come reports to Europe of the remarkable form of insanity which is just now affecting the people of Federal America. We should not have thought it worth while to take any notice of the publication of the…
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Pinturas de Casta: Mexican Caste Paintings, a Foucauldian Reading New Readings School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Volume 10 (July 2009) page 1-17 Nasheli Jiménez del Val Cardiff University This article looks at the genre of casta painting developed in colonial Mexico during the eighteenth century. The genre consists of a series of paintings representing…
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Mexican Art Genre Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing
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The Estimation of Admixture in Racial Hybrids Annals of Human Genetics Volume 35, Issue 1 (July 1971) pages 9–17 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1956.tb01373.x Robert C. Elston, Professor & Chair, Distinguished University Professor Case Western Reserve University When a racial hybrid population has arisen from the intermarriage of two or more parental populations, a problem of interest is…