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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All four books under review here are concerned with telling dramatic tales about singular, real lives. But they are also books about race. They are driven by the larger goal of making the individual story stand for more than itself.
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Rachel Dolezal, Alice Jones’ Nipples, the Rhinelander Fortune, and Racist White Fire Fighters Who Tried to Pass for ‘Black’ Indomitable: The Online Blog of Essayist and Cultural Critic Chauncey DeVega 2015-06-17 Chauncey DeVega Alice Beatrice Jones and Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (1924). I want to extend a sincere thanks to all of…
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Racial Passing and the Rhinelander Case English 365: The “Great” American Novel: 1900-1965: Prof. VZ College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 2015-02-10 Brooke Fortune Alice Jones with her parents On page 101 of Passing, Irene references the widely publicized case of Rhinelander vs. Rhinelander (“What if Bellew should divorce Clare? Could he? There was the…
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This Essay aims to engage readers in a thought experiment, to envision what equal protection doctrine might look like if it were structured to reflect the values identity is intended to serve without explicitly invoking identity categories as a way to delineate permissible and impermissible forms of discrimination.
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Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist University of Oklahoma Press September 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806149165 Amina Hassan, Consultant & Researcher The Azara Group, New York, New York Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the…
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Employee’s Change in Racial Self-Identification Cannot Support Discrimination Claim if Employer Unaware of Change JD Supra Business Advisor 2015-10-05 Jonathan Crotty Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina Michael Vanesse Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina In recent years, more Americans have begun identifying themselves as biracial or of mixed…
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Betty Blake, 80, is the mother of retired tennis star James Blake. Betty, who is white and grew up in England, talks about raising two sons who are black.