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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Misc.: How to Really Kill Affirmative Action or Why Abigail Fisher Ain’t Rachel Dolezol The Multiracial Advocate 2016-01-20 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Abigail Fisher was a mediocre high school student applying to the University of Texas (UT). She couldn’t get in based on her grades and test scores alone so…
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Oklahoma cop gets life for sex crimes against the poor USA Today 2016-01-21 Melanie Eversley, Breaking News Reporter Former officer Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison after he was convicted in December of 18 counts, including first-degree rape. A former Oklahoma City police officer was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of…
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Brazil’s Federal Universities Approach Racial Quota Implementation Deadline Truthout 2015-12-30 Marlenee Blas Pedral, Fulbright Fellow Comissão Fulbright Brasil In 2016, Brazil’s prestigious federal universities will be required to confirm that fifty percent of their incoming students come from public schools. Furthermore, slots for self-identifying Black, mixed-race and Indigenous students must correspond to the proportion of…
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The Race Relations Act at 50: Davina’s story BBC Radio 5 In Short 2015-12-07 It is 50 years since Britain’s first Race Relations Act was passed, banning racial discrimination in public places. Davina Looker, an English teacher and blogger from London has spoken to BBC Radio 5 live about her “desperate” search to find an…
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Plessy v. Ferguson Re-Argument C-SPAN: Created by Cable Program ID: 71350-1 1996-04-20 Hosted by Harvard University Distinguished jurists heard a re-argument of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court case in which the Court found that Louisiana did not discriminate against Homer A. Plessy when it refused to let him sit in the white only…
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Rulemaking under way for DNA testing for Hawaiian homelands The Associated Press 2015-12-28 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher This Dec. 24, 2015 photo provided by Pat Kahawaiolaa shows Kahawaiolaa taking a selfie at Keaukaha Beach Park in Hilo, Hawaii. He is among those with at least 50 percent Native Hawaiian blood who are eligible for low-cost land…
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The Tax Sleuth Who Took Down a Drug Lord The New York Times 2015-12-25 Nathaniel Popper, Wall Street Reporter Gary Alford, a special agent with the I.R.S., pored over old blog posts and chat room logs that led, eventually, to Dread Pirate Roberts. Cole Wilson for The New York Times Gary L. Alford was running…
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DEMING, Whatcom County — In his big gray truck, Gabriel Galanda makes a notable entrance into a Nooksack tribal-housing development of a couple dozen modest homes, set on a winding road about a half-hour east of Bellingham. Many of the residents, members of a sprawling clan who move easily in and out of each other’s…
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Stateless in the Dominican Republic Columbia Law School 2015-12-15 Media Contact: Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu Human Rights Lawyers Champion the Rights of Disenfranchised Dominicans of Haitian Descent, in a Talk at Columbia Law School New York, December 15, 2015—The plight of more than 200,000 people in the Dominican Republic who were stripped of their…