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: Law
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Discourses of Citizenship in American and Brazilian Affirmative Action Court Decisions American Journal of Comparative Law Volume 64, Number 2, (Summer 2016) pages 455-504 DOI: 10.5131/AJCL.2016.0015 Adilson José Moreira Harvard University; Mackenzie Presbyterian University American and Brazilian courts are traveling quite different paths regarding the question of racial justice. Race neutrality has become an influential…
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Special Relationships: mixed-race couples in post-war Britain and the United States Women’s History Review Volume 26, 2017 – Issue 1: Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s pages 110-129 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1123027 Clive Webb, Professor of Modern American History University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom This article uses a transatlantic…
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When the Serendipitously Named Lovings Fell in Love, Their World Fell Apart Smithsonian.com 2016-12-23 Christopher Wilson, Director of the African American History Program and Experience and Program Design Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. The new film captures the quiet essence of the couples’ powerful story, says Smithsonian scholar Christopher Wilson “My theory…
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Mixed marriages, stubborn racial bias: Discrimination persists for the nonwhite The New York Daily News 2016-12-09 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Mildred and Richard Loving (Associated Press) “I ’m pregnant.” Those are the first two words uttered in the recently released film “Loving.” The poignant opening prompts viewers to consider the most contested…
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Opinion of Judge Leon M. Bazile (January 22, 1965) Source: Encyclopedia Virginia In this written judgment, dated January 22, 1965, Leon M. Bazile, judge of the Caroline County Circuit Court, refuses a motion on behalf of Richard and Mildred Loving to vacate their 1959 conviction for violating the state law that forbids interracial marriage. The…
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Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’ African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Peter Cole, Professor of History Western Illinois University A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across the nation arrives just in time. Released…
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Beacon Goes to the Movies: “Loving” and the History of White Supremacy Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press 2016-12-15 Ayla Zuraw-Friedland, Editorial Assistant When publicity assistant Perpetua Charles and senior editor Joanna Green first began planning a staff trip to see the film Loving in celebration of Beacon’s forthcoming book on the same topic…
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My fear killer will get pension, by daughter of train IRA bomb victim The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-17 David Young Jayne Olorunda The daughter of a man killed in an IRA blast on a train has claimed her elderly mother would be excluded from a proposed victims’ pension scheme while the IRA terrorist whose bomb killed…
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Jayne Olorunda’s dad was killed by an IRA bomber whose daughter has been made a Sinn Fein MLA. Jayne tells Stephanie Bell this is the last straw and her family is now set to quit Northern Ireland