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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Category: Papers/Presentations
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The jokes, comments and stereotypes always flow so freely. I speak up every time.
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This paper documents that many black males experienced a change in racial classification to white in the United States, 1880–1940, while changes in racial classification were negligible for other races. We provide a rich set of descriptive evidence on the lives of black men “passing” for white, such as marriage, children, the passing of spouses…
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I will be analyzing these novels under the four themes of passing, acceptance, romance, and Paris/escape. I will also be mapping the characters in the novel on a QGIS system in order to indicate where the majority of the novel takes place and to see if certain characters have more movement than others.
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In 1894, Ida Platt became the first African-American woman lawyer in Illinois. She was one of only five black women lawyers in the country and the only one able to maintain a law practice.
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“Brown Babies” in Postwar Europe: The Italian Case Max Weber Lecture No. 2016/03 European University Institute 2016 12 pages Silvana Patriarca, Professor of History Fordham University, New York, New York The paper addresses the issue of the persistence of the idea of race in its close intersection with ideas of national identities in post-1945 Europe,…
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The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 22480 Issued in August 2016 47 pages DOI: 10.3386/w22480 Nora Gordon, Associate Professor McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Sarah Reber, Associate Professor of Public Policy Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Los…
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“Virtues do not all belong to the whites”: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students The College at Brockport, State University of New York 2016-04-23 18 pages Jennifer Bradley Villanova University The works of Sui Sin Far, who is widely recognized as the…
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts Working Paper No. 21982 February 2016 58 pages DOI: 10.3386/w21982 Brian Duncan, Professor of Economics University of Colorado Stephen J. Trejo, Professor of Economics University of Texas, Austin Because of data limitations, virtually…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs (review) [Cutter] African American Review Volume 48, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 381-383 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut Hobbs, Allyson, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…