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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A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen’s Descendents bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1570 2006-08-17 72 pages S. Alan Ray, President Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois The Cherokee Nation today faces the challenge of determining its citizenship criteria in the context of race. The article focuses on the Cherokee Freedmen.…
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Blood Quantum, Race, and Identity in Indian Country January 2011 32 pages Sarah Montana Hart, Judicial Clerk Magistrate Judge Carolyn Ostby Federal District Court for the District of Montana This article discusses how blood quantum laws affect racism and other relations between Indian nations and the United States. 1. Introduction Throughout the history of our…
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Stand Back Ladies and Gentlemen! The Wonders of the World! Conformity and Confrontation in Winnifred Eaton’s Freak Show Setting in “The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three-Headed Maid” Winnifred Eaton Project Symposium 2007-03-15 through 2007-03-16 Owens Art Gallery Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada 2007-03-16 Christine Mayor Mount Allison University The freak show…
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The position taken by many anthropologists, both biological and social, and increasingly many other scholars in the social sciences is that “race is a cultural construct.” It should be clear that this is not a definition or even a characterization of “race,” but an assertion about the scholarly or existential domain in which we can…
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Irish and ‘brown’ – Mixed ‘race’ Irish women’s identity and the problem of belonging Women’s Movement: Migrant Women Transforming Ireland Selection of papers from a conference held in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2003-03-20 through 2003-03-21 pages 86-90 Angeline Morrison Falmouth College of Arts People are beginning to talk about the ‘invisibility’ of Whiteness. I am…
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Her “Nig”: Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen’s “Passing” Modern Language Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (Autumn, 2002) pages 109-138 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College In a scene from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, a white man, John Bellew, enters his Chicago hotel room to find his wife, Clare, taking tea…
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The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence College of Law Faculty Scholarship Paper 74 January 2008 56 pages Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Janis L. McDonald, Professor of Law Syracuse University This article offers a theory of racial identity divorced from biological considerations. Law fails to recognize the complexity of…