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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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A Citizen of Fine Spirit William Mitchell Magazine Volume 18, Issue 2, Fall 2000 pages 2-6 Douglas R. Heidenreich, Emeritus Professor of Law Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota Minnesota Historical Society William T. Francis was (1869-1929), by most measures, the most successful of the early African American alumni of William Mitchell College…
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Coin given to US’s oldest park ranger by Barack Obama stolen in home invasion The Guardian 2016-06-30 Sam Levin Ranger Betty Soskin holds a photo of herself has a young woman. Photograph: Alamy The White House is sending a replacement coin to 94-year-old Betty Soskin, who says she hopes she can recover the original from…
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Anti-Miscegenation Laws and the Dilemma of Symmetry: The Understanding of Equality in the Civil Rights Act of 1875 The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Volume 2: Issue 1, Article 12 (January 1995) pages 303-344 Steven A. Bank, Paul Hastings Professor of Business Law University of California, Los Angeles…
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Mixed-race in Oregon The Asian Reporter Portland, Oregon Volume 26, Number 12 (2016-06-20) ISSN: 1094-9453 page 6, columns 2-3 Dmae Roberts, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist I received some exciting news this month. I was selected as one of the speakers for the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project, a program that brings people together to…
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States of Denial Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-06-04 When Barack Obama was first elected president in 2008, some pundits declared the United States to have finally reached a triumphal post-racial stage, an era of long-awaited racial harmony after the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Yet, almost a decade…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case Tripod: New Orleans At 300 89.9 FM WWNO New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-06-16 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190) THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind…
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Revealed: MP’s alleged killer ‘bought manual on how to make a handgun and bombs from a US far-right group and has links to neo-Nazi organisations going back decades’ The Daily Mail London, England 2016-06-17 James Tozer, Chris Greenwood, Andy Dolan, and Claire Duffin For The Daily Mail Richard Spillett, Stephanie Linning, and Lucy Crossley for…
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The penalties of miscegenation Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 3, 1972 pages 10-12 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969062 Mary Dines (1927-2011) Paragraph 24 of “Commonwealth Citizens: Control after Entry: Immigration Rules” (Cmd. 4295) reads: “If a man who was admitted as a visitor or student, or in some other temporary capacity, marries a woman who is a…
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What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-06-10 Arica L. Coleman The landmark civil rights Supreme Court case—which made it illegal to ban interracial marriage—was about more than black and white When the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Loving v. the Commonwealth of Virginia, defendants Richard and Mildred Loving chose not…