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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Loving v. Virginia (No. 395): 206 Va. 924, 147 S.E.2d 78, reversed. Waren, C.J., Opinion of the Court, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 388 U.S. 1, Loving v. Virginia Appeal from the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia No. 395 Argued: April 10, 1967 Decided: June 12, 1967 Source: Legal Information Institute, Cornell University…
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Virginia Ban on Interracial Marriages Goes to Federal Court This Week The New York Times 1965-01-24 page 43 RICHMOND, Jan. 23—A constitutional test of Virginia laws that make it a crime for a white person to marry a Negro will begin here next week. The case is regarded as certain to go to the United…
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Indiana’s Miscegenation Laws: An Ineffective Racist Agenda Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana May 2013 57 pages Megan M. Harris An Undergraduate Honors Thesis (HONRS 499) Miscegenation laws have played an influential and explanatory role in Indiana’s perception and attitudes about interracial relationships. Indiana had stringent regulations against such unions, which existed for a large portion…
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How Indiana Punishes Miscegenation The New York Times 1879-05-21 Terre Haute, Ind., May 20.—William Nelson, a colored man, was sentenced to-day to pay a fine of $5,000 and be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for one year for marrying a white woman. The prosecution originated in spite, but Nelson was convicted under the law of 1856,…
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Interracial births in Baltimore, 1950-1964 Public Health Reports Volume 81, Number 11 (November 1966) pages 967-971 Sidney M. Norton, Director of the Bureau of Vital Records Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland Also Assistant, Department of Chronic Diseases School of Hygiene and Public Health Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland During the course of routine, periodic…
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The mixing of races in Saint Domingue occasioned a plethora of commentaries, mostly venomous and polemical, on the causes and consequences of the colony’s multiracial order. The most famous of these commentaries, though not the most polemical, was by Moreau de Saint-Méry, the colonial jurist and historian whose writings on Saint-Domingue are still a major…
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Marginalizing Métis histories through Treaty Territory Acknowledgment Big M Musings 2013-10-03 Chris Andersen, Research and Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta In the last decade or so, it has become a fairly accepted practice in Indigenous Studies circles for scholars presenting on Indigenous issues to begin their talks with some form of acknowledgment…
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Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 University Press of Mississippi 2005 224 pages bibliography, index Cloth ISBN: 9781578067053 Paper ISBN: 9781604732474 Alex Lubin, Associate Professor of American Studies University of New Mexico Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the…
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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America Oxford University Press 2010-02-16 352 Pages 15 b/w photos 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780195379792 Paperback ISBN: 9780199794454 Sharon Davies, Professor of Law; Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Director of the Kirwan Institute for the…