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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Mark Loving on the film ‘Loving’ and a Supreme Court case that changed the nation Eastern Mennonite University Harrisonburg, Virginia 2016-11-03 Lauren Jefferson, Editor-in-Chief Mark Loving, a sophomore at Eastern Mennonite University, shows a photo of his great-grandparents, Mildred and Richard Loving. In 1967, the couple won a Supreme Court case that eventually led to…
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50 years ago: Tucson couple broke down barriers to interracial marriage Arizona Capital Times 2009-11-01 Luige del Puerto Henry Oyama was beaming as he led his new bride from the altar of St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson 50 years ago. She was wearing a traditional white wedding dress, and her left hand was grasping the…
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Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. The New York Times 2016-11-03 Manohla Dargis, Movie Critic Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in the Jeff Nichols film “Loving.” Credit Ben Rothstein/Focus Features There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly —…
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The Lovings’ Marriage License Is Now On Display At D.C. Court DCist Washington, D.C. 2016-08-31 Rachel Kurzius Photo courtesy of D.C. Courts. D.C. Superior Courthttp://dccourts.gov/internet/superior/main.jsf—not usually a stop for tourists looking for the kinds of historic documents found in the Smithsonian museums. Now, though, the court’s marriage bureau is displaying a collection of seven notable…
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The End of Anti-Miscegenation Laws: Loving v. Virginia and Interracial Relationships Multiracial Media 2016-11-03 Joanna L. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice University of Illinois, Chicago Little Rock, Arkansas protest to keep anti-miscegenation laws on the books. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia.Commons This past weekend, the new movie Loving hit theaters. The film…
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Collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification. The New York City Council Melissa Mark-Viverito, Speaker 2014-11-25 (Passed 2016-11-13) Int 0551-2014, Version A (2014-11-25) A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification Proposed Int. No. 551-A would require the Department of Social Services,…
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In “Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico,” an ambitious rereading of colonial history, Robert C. Schwaller proposes using the Spanish term géneros de gente (types or categories of people) as part of a more nuanced perspective on what these categories of difference meant and how they evolved. His work revises our understanding of racial…
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This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their son The Oregonian 2016-10-16 Casey Parks A banner hanging above the couch proclaims it a house divided. “But only when it comes to football,” Natasha Bruce said. When it came to race, the old wood house in Vancouver, Wash. was…
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The Dilemma of Interracial Marriage: The Boston NAACP and the National Equal Rights League, 1912–1927 Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2016 Zebulon Miletsky, Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York On a wintry evening on February 1, 1843, a group of Boston’s African American citizens gathered…