Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.
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Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962 The Brooklyn Historical Society Blog The Brooklyn Historical Society 2013-06-05 Sady Sullivan, Director of Oral History The Bibuld Family, ca. 1962, V1989.22.14; Bob Adelman photographs of Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrations collection, V1989.002; Brooklyn Historical Society. This photograph from the Brooklyn Congress of Racial…
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Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law The New York Times 1983-07-06 Frances Frank Marcus, Special to the New York Times NEW ORLEANS, July 5— Gov. David C. Treen today signed legislation repealing a Louisiana statute that established a mathematical formula to determine if a person was black. The law establishing the formula, passed by state legislators…
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Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Volume 10, Summer 2013 pages 191-218 Tina F. Botts, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pre-law Advisor University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nancy Leong’s thesis, in “Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination,” is that antidiscrimination law should make a switch…
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Mixed Breeds Are Not Negroes and May Mingle With Whites The Weekly Messenger St. Martinville, Louisiana 1910-04-30 page 3, column 2 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers The Daily Picayune The Supreme Court of Louisiana by a vote of three to two, Justices Nicholls and Land dissenting, has decided that the state law prohibiting concubinage…
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The Forgotten Amerasians The New York Times 2013-05-27 Christopher M. Lapinig Yale University NEW HAVEN — THE Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill last week that would gradually make citizenship possible for as many as 11 million undocumented immigrants. The bill is widely described as sweeping in scope. In fact, it is not…
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Lecture: What Would Be the Story of Alice and Leonard Rhinelander Today? UC Davis Law Review University of California School of Law Volume 46, Number 4, April 2013 pages 939-960 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa On November 8, 2011, I presented this lecture as part of…
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In new book, two Kentucky families discover surprising racial histories Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky 2011-05-15 Linda B. Blackford Freda Spencer Goble of Paintsville knew that she hailed from a proud and hardworking clan that carved a life out of the hills and hollows of frontier Johnson County. What she didn’t know was that one of…