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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Watson [Program] Will Allow Reid to Study Issues Multi-Racial People Face Davidson University Davidson, North Carolina 2007-04-02 Rachel Andoga “When I went abroad to Strasbourg, France, I remember meeting everybody in my program on the plane, and this one girl said to me, ‘So, can we just get this out of the way—what are you?’”…
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Prejudice inspires filmmaker to discover Afro-German roots Indiana Daily Student Indiana University 2010-01-24 Abby Liebenthal, Staff Reporter “It all started with a public threat on my life.” Within the first few minutes of Mo Asumang’s documentary “Roots Germania,” students, faculty and Bloomington residents became part of a search for the director’s identity… …Asumang said the…
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Reconstruction, Segregation, and Miscegenation: Interracial Marriage and the Law in the Lower South, 1865-1900 American Nineteenth Century History Volume 6, Issue 1 March 2005 pages 57-76 DOI: 10.1080/14664650500121827 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University On the eve of Congressional Reconstruction, all seven states of the Lower South had laws against…
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Deciding on Doctrine: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes and the Development of Equal Protection Analysis Virginia Law Review Number 95, Issue 3 (May 2009) pages 627-665 Rebecca Schoff University of Virginia School of Law In 1967, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States were in complete agreement that the statutory scheme before them in Loving…
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What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association 2009-03-23 pp. 218-220 Mark Kessler, Chair of the Department of History & Government and Professor of Government Texas Woman’s Univeristy What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. By Peggy…
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Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom after being classified as a negro by the overseers of her late master’s estate. Her lawsuit is one of the earliest freedom suits in the English colonies filed by a person with some African ancestry. Elizabeth’s case also highlights those…