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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A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 44, Number 1 2009 pages 231-253 University of Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-26 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Assistant Professor of Physics…
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A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, “What Comes Naturally” traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States–laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied…
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Appo Will Serve Six Months The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thursday, 1895-10-03 page 12, column 2 Source: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection George Appo, the Chinese half-bred, who obtained notoriety especially through his testimony before the Lexow senate investigating committee, and who pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree in the stabbing of Policeman Michael…
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The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo Bedford/St. Martin’s 2013 208 pages Paper ISBN-10: 0-312-60762-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-60762-3 George Appo (1856-1930) Edited with an Introduction by: Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Professor of History Loyola University, Chicago Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to…
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In George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year.
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Paralegal claims discrimination by law firm because of mixed-race heritage The Southeast Texas Record: Southeast Texas’ Legal Journal Beaumont, Texas 2013-03-25 John Suayan, Galveston Bureau HOUSTON – Montgomery County resident Darren Chew claims he was subjected to racial discrimination while working for a collections law firm and has filed a lawsuit. Recent court papers filed…