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: Economics
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The origin of America’s first surviving set of identical quadruplets.
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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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Widespread sexual exploitation before the Civil War strongly influenced the genetic make-up of essentially all African Americans alive today.
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What the future of low-wage work really looks like.
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Contractors with white ancestry were awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts reserved for minorities by making unsubstantiated claims to being Native American, a Times investigation found. To qualify for the minority contracting programs, they used membership in unrecognized Cherokee groups that federally recognized tribes and Native American experts consider illegitimate
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This carefully researched volume is the most thorough examination to date of Julien Hudson and his world.
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What motivates someone to disguise their race, gender, religion, etc.? Today Danielle explores the complicated history of passing in the United States.