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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White Latinos Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 2003) 8 pages Ian Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley Who are the leaders in Latino communities? This question does not admit simple answers, for who counts as a leader and what Latino identity entails are both contentious…
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Spotlight on Jon Veilie: A Man on a Thirteen Year Mission The Modern American Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) Article 8 pages 22-23 Lydia Edwards It all started one month after he passed the bar. Sylvia Davis, a black Seminole, came to Jon for help. She had been to many lawyers already. She told…
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Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage William and Mary Law Review Volume 9, Issue 2 (1967) Article 8 pages 402-429 Dominik Lasok, Professor of Law University of Exeter The theory that British settlers brought with them as much of the common Law of England as was appropriate to their circumstances in the New World, propounded by…
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Miscegenation: The Courts and the Constitution William and Mary Law Review Volume 8, Issue 1 (1966) Article 7 pages 133-142 Cyrus E. Phillips IV MISCEGENATION: THE COURTS AND THE CONSTITUTION Miscegenation is generally defined as the interbreeding or marriage of persons of different races, but the term will here be used in reference to miscegenetic…
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Present Status of Miscegenation Statutes William and Mary Law Review Volume 4, Issue 1 (January 1963) Article 4 pages 28-35 Edmund L. Walton Jr., Founder Walton & Adams, P.C., Reston, Virginia With the influx of so called “civil rights” cases in recent years it seems that a reappraisal of state legislation and constitutional prohibitions concerning intermarriage…
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Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhood February 2009 44 pages Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center Michigan State University Forthcoming in a 2011 University of Wyoming Law Review issue. American Indian tribes and nations are at a crossroads. One on hand, many tribes like the Cherokee…
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A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen’s Descendents bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1570 2006-08-17 72 pages S. Alan Ray, President Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois The Cherokee Nation today faces the challenge of determining its citizenship criteria in the context of race. The article focuses on the Cherokee Freedmen.…
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Blood Quantum, Race, and Identity in Indian Country January 2011 32 pages Sarah Montana Hart, Judicial Clerk Magistrate Judge Carolyn Ostby Federal District Court for the District of Montana This article discusses how blood quantum laws affect racism and other relations between Indian nations and the United States. 1. Introduction Throughout the history of our…
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No School Left Behind: Providing Equal Educational Opportunities: Where Have All the Lovings Gone?: The Continuing Relevance of the Movement for a Multiracial Category and Racial Classification After Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Volume 11, Number 3, Spring 2008 pages 409-452 Shalini R.…
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Am I that Race? Punjabi Mexicans and Hybrid Subjectivity, or How To Do Theory So That It Doesn’t Do You Hastings Women’s Law Journal Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer 2010) page 311-332 Falguni A. Sheth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts I. INTRODUCTION This paper explores the conceptual and…