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: Economics
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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa—a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people.
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What is Luring a Million Chinese to Africa? OZY 2014-05-15 Jacob Kushner Like immigrants the world over, the million Chinese who’ve landed in Africa are plucky, hugely ambitious and have an eye for opportunity. They’re also helping make China a big player on a continent once dominated by the West. You’ve seen the headlines: China…
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Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…
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Colleges Help Ithaca Thrive In a Region Of Struggles The New York Times 2013-08-04 Jesse McKinley ITHACA, N.Y. — In many ways, this city is not so special. It has a nice lake, some attractive houses with lawns, and a couple of colleges. But many places in upstate New York have lakes and lawns and…
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W.Va. historian to talk on pre-Civil War slave economy The Charleston Gazette Charleston, West Virginia 2013-04-09 Douglas Imbrogno CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Ending slavery was a moral question that haunted early American history, but it was one inextricably tangled up in economics. While West Virginia was a state born in 1863 out of the tumult over slavery and…
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Can the “one-drop rule” tell us anything about racial discrimination? New evidence from the multiple race question on the 2000 Census Labour Economics Volume 16, Issue 4 (August 2009) pages 451-460 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.01.003 Robert W. Fairlie, Professor of Economics University of California, Santa Cruz The inclusion of multiple race information for the first time in…
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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of nineteenth-century African-American stature Journal of Population Economics Volume 24, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 1471-1491 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-010-0324-x Scott Alan Carson, Professor of Economics The University of Texas of the Permian Basin Nineteenth-century mulattos were taller than their darker-colored African-American counterparts. However, traditional explanations that attribute the…