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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Anti-Miscegenation Movement Columbus Enquirer-Sun Columbus, Georgia 1886-09-24 page 5, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Organization In Louisiana to Prevent the Intermarriage of Whites and Blacks New Orleans. September 20.—A practical movement has been inaugurated in Bossier parish, in this state, for the abolition of miscegenation. There have been during the past year or…
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A Race Question: A Negro Man With a White Wife—Some Nice Points of Law—Indians Have Greater Nuptial Privileges. Columbus Enquirer-Sun Columbus, Georgia Saturday, 1886-11-20 page 8, columns 3-4 Source: Digital Library of Georgia A very interesting case, both as to the facts and the nice legal points involved, was tried this week at the circuit court…
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The District Court yesterday was the centre of much excitement, and as usual on such occasions, the negroes were out in full force. It was generally understood that the miscegenationists were to be placed on trial.
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Outlawry in Robeson County, North Carolina The Atlanta Weekly Sun For the Week Ending 1872-03-27 page 5, columns 3-5 Source: Georgia Historic Newspapers The Lowerys The extraordinary persistence of the Lowery gang in their bloody work, in Robeson county, North Carolina, demands an outline sketch of their career, for the information of many who have…
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Canada’s First Nations: Time we stopped meeting like this The Economist 2013-01-19 Protests by native peoples pose awkward questions for their leaders, and for Stephen Harper’s government Back in the 18th century British and French settlers in what is now Canada secured peace with the indigenous inhabitants by negotiating treaties under which the locals agreed…
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Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America and the Use of Legal History to Police Social Boundaries Michigan State Law Review Volume 2011, Issue 1 (2011) pages 255-261 Kristin Hass, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Michigan “‘Being black is not the only reason why some people…
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Census Race Change For Hispanics Sparks Criticism The Huffington Post 2013-01-09 Tony Castro Some Latino civil rights groups are questioning the U.S. Census consideration of designating Hispanics a race of their own, fearing the loss of national original designations. The change, making “Hispanic” a racial instead of an ethnic category, would eliminate the check-off boxes…
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In a 1943 letter to local registrars, clerks, and legislators, Plecker asserted, “[T]here does not exist today a descendant of Virginia ancestors claiming to be an Indian who is unmixed with negro blood.”