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 separate category for mixed race is necessary to redress the unique harms targeting mixed-race persons. In order to be most effective any scheme proposing such a category must address many pitfalls and complexities in Title VII doctrine. Any categorization must be flexible, just as race can be fluid and contextual. The general argument against…
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Mixed Race Across the Pacific University of Southern California Freshman Seminars Spring 2013 Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion In an era when a mixed-race President of the United States proudly proclaims himself as the first Pacific President of America, how might we rethink the study of race in a global, rather than merely a…
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Letter documenting the struggle of two children’s attempt to attend school Special Collections University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Item of the Month March 2010 Jennifer Brannock, Special Collections Librarian The Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Sovereignty Commission Online [Note from Steven F. Riley: For more on Newton Knight, Rachel Knight, and the “Free State…
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Brazil’s affirmative action law offers a huge hand up The Christian Science Monitor 2013-02-12 Sara Miller Llana, Latin America Bureau Chief and Staff Writer Public universities in Brazil will reserve half their seats to provide racial, income, and ethnic diversity – a law that goes the furthest in the Americas in attempting race-based equality. It…
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Canada’s Métis win 142-year-old land ruling BBC News 2013-03-08 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the Métis indigenous group 142 years ago. In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was “not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction”. The…