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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Britain’s first black female High Court judge opens up about racism at the bar Legal Cheek London, United Kingdom 2016-03-30 Katie King, Reporter Clerks would Tippex out her name on briefs and write in the name of male pupil they wanted to be the tenant Dame Linda Dobbs has exposed shameful incidents of racism and…
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AmbryShare Restores Genes to the Public Domain The Huffington Post 2016-03-29 Amal Cheema, Biochemistry and Political Science Student Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “As a stage four cancer survivor, I find it shocking that public and private laboratories routinely lock away vital genomic information. That practice is delaying medical progress, causing real human suffering, and it…
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What Is Critical Race Theory? Harvard Magazine 2016-03-22 Marina Bolotnikova Khiara Bridges Photograph courtesy of Khiara Bridges RACIAL-JUSTICE ACTIVISTS at Harvard Law School (HLS) won one of the largest public battles over the school’s legacy this month, when the administration agreed to abandon the existing HLS shield. The shield was modeled after the crest of…
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What an 1887 murder and dismemberment tells us about race relations today The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-17 Samantha Melamed, Staff Writer On the freezing-cold morning of Feb. 17, 1887, a Bensalem carpenter walking by an ice pond noticed a parcel wrapped in brown paper and marked “handle with care.” Inside, he found a male torso of…
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Six-year-old taken from California foster family under Indian Child Welfare Act The Guardian 2016-03-22 The Associated Press in Santa Clarita, California Lexi, who has lived with the foster family for years, was removed by a court order which says her Native American heritage requires her to live with Utah relatives A six-year-old girl who spent…
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Who is Black? Who is Indian? State/Federal Acknowledgment and the Politics of Racial Purity Arizona State University West Hall, Room 135 Tempe, Arizona 2016-03-21, 16:30-18:00 MST (Local Time) Arica Coleman, adjunct lecturer, Center for African Studies, Johns Hopkins University African and African American History, Widener University, will discuss the politics of racial purity in state…
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Fr. Virgilio Elizondo Takes His Own Life The Rivard Report: Urban. Independent. All About San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas 2016-03-14 Robert Rivard, Director Fr. Virgilio Elizondo, one of San Antonio’s most accomplished and beloved Catholic priests whose work brought him recognition in Latin America and Europe and an esteemed faculty position at the University of…
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“Race Is Not a Determinative Factor”: Mixed Race Children and Custody Cases in Canada Canadian Journal of Family Law Volume 29, Number 2, 2015 pages 309- Susan B. Boyd, Professor Emerita of Law; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Peter A. Allard School of Law University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Krisha…
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Story Of A Criminal The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, Indiana Sunday, 1894-06-17 page 16, columns 1-2 How Green Goods Men Are Protected by Gotham Police. Tale of Iniquity Unequaled In the Annals of Municipal Corruption—Testimony of George Appo. NEW YORK, June 16. During the past week the Lexow committee opened up an entirely new line of…