Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Category: Articles
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Fluidity without Postmodernism: Michelle Cliff and the “Tragic Mulatta” Tradition African American Review Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1998) pages 673-689 Suzanne Bost, Associate Professor of English Loyola University I am writing the story of my life as a statue… I wish they had carved me from the onyx of Elizabeth Catlett. Or molded me…
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Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans Southeastern Geographer Volume 48, Number 1, May 2008 pages 19-37 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0010 Amy R. Sumpter, Instructor of Geography Georgia College and State University Louisiana and the city of New Orleans have a complicated colonial…
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From Eugenics to Genomics: A History of the Race Concept and Its Impact on Contemporary Health Disparities American Public Health Association Annual Meeting San Diego, California 2008 Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention Drexel University At the dawn of the 21st century, the idea of race—the belief that the…
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A Brief History of Census “Race” Knol: A unit of knowledge 2010-06-08 4 illustrations Frank W. Sweet, Independent Research Historian The U.S. federal census was founded to apportion congressional representation among the states. In order to achieve additional goals, it switched in 1850 from recording households in summary, to recording individuals in detail. It became…
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The mulatta, the bishop, and dances in the Cathedral: race, music, and power relations in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico Black Music Research Journal Volume 26, Number 2 (Fall, 2006) pages 137-164 Noel Allende-Goitía, Professor of Music Universidad Interamericano de Puerto Rico, San Germán At the beginning of the twentieth century, Cayetano Coll y Toste, a Puerto…