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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Race to be scrapped from Swedish legislation The Local: Sweden’s News in English 2014-07-31 Solveig Rundquist The Swedish government announced that it plans to remove all mentions of race from Swedish legislation, saying that race is a social construct which should not be encouraged in law. “We know that different human races actually do not…
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Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Renee Romano teaches history at Oberlin College and she is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Harvard University Press, 2003), and co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in…
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Black Indians are constantly confronted with the fact that they do not fit any of society’s stereotypes for Native Americans. Those stereotypes are imposed by both whites and sadly, other Indians.
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Elective Race: Recognizing Race Discrimination in the Era of Racial Self-Identification Georgetown Law Journal Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Volume 102, Issue 5 (2014) pages 1501-1572 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California, Gould School of Law This Article posits that we are in a key moment of discursive and ideological transition,…
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“That the Blood Stay Pure” traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.
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Fathers of Conscience with Bernie D. Jones [Part 2] Research at the National Archives & Beyond Blogtalk Radio 2014-05-08, 21:00 EDT (2014-05-09, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Join Author Bernie D. Jones for an engaging discussion about her book – Fathers of Conscience – Mixed-Race…
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Opinion: Supreme Court ruling upholds America’s mixed view Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-04-24 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan (CNN) — I didn’t expect to find the specter of the mixed-race person making an appearance in Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision that upheld…
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Intermarried-Whites in the Cherokee Nation Between the Years 1865 and 1887 Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, Number 3 (September, 1928) pages 299-326 A. H. Murchison Muskogee, Oklahoma The Cherokee Indians in all their various treaties with the United States, numbering about twenty, obtained provisions whereby the United States was to exclude intruding white persons from their…
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Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of “Race” in Twentieth-Century America The Journal of American History Volume 83, Number 1 (June, 1996) pages 44-69 Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010), Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon On March 21, 1921, Joe Kirby took his wife, Mayellen, to court. The Kirbys had been married for…