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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Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires Routledge 2012-02-29 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-50429-4 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia This book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India by contrasting Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces. Starting in the sixteenth century,…
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Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…
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Mississippi Black Code (1865) America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After The Civil War Digital History: using new technologies to enhance teaching and research 2011 The Civil Rights of Freedmen in Mississippi (Approved November 25, 1865) Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Mississippi, That all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes…
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Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law California Law Review Volume 88, Issue 6 (2000) pages 1923-2015 Angela P. Harris, Professor of Law University of California, Davis In this Essay, Professor Harris suggests that “race law” consists not only of antidiscrimination law, but law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial…
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Administering Identity: The Determination of Race in Race-Conscious Law California Law Review Volume 82, Issue 5 (1994) pages 1231-1285 Christopher A. Ford Modern American anti-discrimination law seeks to remedy the effects of racial and ethnic prejudice by ensuring equality in areas such as political access and employment opportunity. In this effort, the concept of race…