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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Signifying on Passing: (Post) Post-Racialism, (Post) Post-Modernism, and (Post) Post-Marxism Columbia Journal of Race and Law Volume 1, Issue 3 (July 2012) pages 482-489 Christian B. Sundquist, Associate Professor of Law Albany Law School The social and legal relevance of racial passing appears to be fading as we ostensibly enter a color-blind, post-race era. During…
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What is “race”? Does the concept of race represent a natural and inevitable understanding of human difference? Does race have any biological meaning, or is it merely an artificial construct employed by society and political bodies? If race is the former, then how can modern society avoid a rebirth of racial eugenics? And yet if…
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The Sexualization of Difference: A Comparison of Mixed-Race and Same-Gender Marriage Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2002 pages 255-288 Josephine Ross, Associate Professor of Law; Supervisor, Criminal Justice Clinic Howard University, Washington, D.C. I. Introduction: Mixed-Race Love as a Sexual Orientation The past prohibition of mixed-race marriages in many…
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Constitutionality Of Miscegenation Statutes: McLaughlin v. Florida Maryland Law Review Volume 25, Issue 1 (1965) pages 41-48 Lee M. Miller The appellants, a Negro man and a white woman, were convicted of violating a Florida statute which proscribed cohabitation between Negro and white persons who are not married to each other. The Florida Supreme Court…
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The Color of Change: Voting Rights in the 21st Century and the California Voting Rights Act Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 15 (2012) pages 184-231 Joanna E. Cuevas Ingram University of California, Davis Table of Contents INTRODUCTION I. THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 AND THE CALIFORNIA VOTING RIGHTS ACT II. U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS…
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The essential task of this article will be to classify invalid or defective marriages in Maryland into those which are totally void and hence subject to collateral attack and those which are only voidable by appropriate steps of direct attack taken during the joint lifetime of the spouses.
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Race Treason: The Untold Story of America’s Ban on Polygamy Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 19, Number 2 (2010) pages 287-366 Martha M. Ertman, Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor of Law University of Maryland Today’s ban on polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons committed two types of treason. First,…