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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Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw found guilty of rape Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-12-10 Michael Martinez, Newsdesk Editor & Writer Gigi Mann (CNN) A jury found former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty Thursday of some of the most serious charges against him, including sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and rape. Holtzclaw…
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A monumental moment in the history of the United States will be celebrated in December when the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery at the close of the Civil War, turns 150 years old. But despite the passage of time, the U.S. continues to struggle with racial inequality.
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This Week in Civil Rights History New York State United Teachers 2015-09-20 September 20th – Maryland Passes First Miscegenation Law On this day in 1664, Maryland passed the first Miscegenation Law, banning inter-racial marriage in the United States. As African slavery became more widespread, both laws and customs became more restrictive. The impetus for the…
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First Look at Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in ‘The Loving Story’ (Based on Anti-Miscegenation Case) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-11-20 Tambay A. Obenson Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving, on the set of the movie “Loving,” being shot in Richmond, Va. (Ben Rothstein/Big Beach Films…
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Martha S. Jones – “The Children of Loving v. Virginia“ Organization of American Historians September 2015 An OAH Lecture by Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan This lecture was presented as part of the Created Equal initiative at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, in September 2015. Recorded by the…
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Afro-Mexicans Are Pushing For Legal Recognition in Mexico’s National Constitution Remezcla 2015-11-09 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888, when government officials declared that high rates of racial mixing had officially absolved the nation of its racial…
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Fluid Identity Discrimination American Business Law Journal Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 2015 pages 789–857 DOI: 10.1111/ablj.12056 Leora F. Eisenstadt, Assistant Professor (Research) Fox School of Business and Management Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania According to the most recent Census, the multiracial population of children has increased dramatically in the last decade, and the number of…