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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Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana (1985) Justice Ward delivered the opinion of the Court. This appeal is brought by several members of the Guillory family, children and grandchildren of Simea Fretty and Dominique Guillory, both deceased. Six of the appellants, Marie Bernice Guillory Rougeau, Armet Guillory Fontenot, Lucy Elizabeth Guillory Parker, Suzy Elizabeth Rita…
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For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2016-09-29 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent When the test scores came out, Lucas Siqueira, 27, was really excited. His high mark on the Foreign Service exam earned him a coveted position at Brazil’s highly competitive Ministry…
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Virginia’s Indian tribes clear another hurdle toward federal recognition The Washington Post 2016-09-15 Jenna Portnoy, Reporter A House committee has advanced a bill that would give federal recognition to six Indian tribes in Virginia, bringing them one step closer to the end of a multi-year fight for acknowledgment of their place in the nation’s history.…
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“If You Is White, You’s Alright. . . .” Stories About Colorism in America Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism (Symposium Edition) (2015) pages 585-607 Kimberly Jade Norwood, Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law; Professor of African & African American Studies Washington University School of Law, St.…
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Justine Jane M. Bolin (First Negro woman judge in the U.S.A.) The Crisis Volume 49, Number 9 (September 1939) THE COVER Miss Jane M. Bolin became on July 22 the first colored woman Judge in the United States when Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia appointed her and swore her in as a justice of the Court of…
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Alabama’s Anti-Miscegenation Statutes Alabama Review Volume 68, Number 4, October 2015 pages 345-365 DOI: 10.1353/ala.2015.0033 Jeremy W. Richter, Associate Webster, Henry, Lyons, Bradwell, Cohan & Speagle, P.C., Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Birmingham, Alabama In the immediate aftermath of the civil war and, more specifically, the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, various southern states began…
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Banished from the tribe Inter-County Leader/Washburn County Register Cooperative-Owned Newspapers Serving Northwest Wisconsin 2016-07-25 Ed Emerson Gary King WEBSTER – Tony Ammann is the grandson of former longtime St. Croix Chippewa chief and traditional “midewiwin” spiritual leader Archie Mosay. His mother, Archie’s daughter, has Department of Interior papers certifying her blood quantum requirement to be…
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Early black lawyer, wife endured bigotry Minneapolis Star-Tribune 2016-02-13 Curt Brown Nellie and William Francis were doing so well in 1924 they decided to move four miles southwest in St. Paul — leaving their Rondo neighborhood for a house in the Groveland Park area near the Mississippi River. The 1920 census listed the couple, married…