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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Suit filed over mix-up at Downers Grove sperm bank is dismissed The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-03 Clifford Ward A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm bank whose clerical error resulted in the birth of her mixed-race daughter. DuPage County Judge Ronald Sutter tossed the suit after lawyers…
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Mark Duggan: mother of man shot dead by police in 2011 calls for urgent inquiry The Guardian 2015-08-04 Diane Taylor Pamela Duggan claims police could have done much more to track down the man who supplied a weapon to her son. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Call for new inquiry comes as demonstrators prepare to march to…
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Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story Daily Kos 2015-08-20 Shaun King [Shaun King] 14 years old. Sophomore in high school Over the past 72 hours I have been attacked with lies by the conservative media, lies that have been picked up by the traditional media and spread further. I have kept silent…
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Tony Robinson’s mother files civil rights lawsuit over fatal police shooting of son The Guardian 2015-08-13 Zoe Sullivan Andrea Irwin alleges officer Matt Kenny violated 14th amendment equal protection rights and fourth amendment right against unreasonable searches The mother of a biracial man killed by a white police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, has filed a…
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On Being Biracial and Affirmative Action: Where Do I Fit in? Skirt Collective 2015-07-23 Shannon Luders-Manuel Los Angeles, California Abigail Fisher, a white student who was denied entrance to the University of Austin, Texas [University of Texas, Austin], is taking her case to the Supreme Court, calling the decision a clear result of affirmative action.…
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Well known as an abolitionist stronghold before the Civil War, Massachusetts had taken steps to eliminate slavery as early as the 1780s. Nevertheless, a powerful racial caste system still held sway, reinforced by a law prohibiting “amalgamation”—marriage between whites and blacks. “The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts” chronicles a grassroots movement to…