Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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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Policing the color line through vital documents.
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The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have
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McDaniel’s book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, “A Sweet Taste of Liberty” is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, which…
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“Becoming Free, Becoming Black” tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders’ efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery.
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This study examines three legal contests during the high tide of black freedom agitation, 1955-1965, in which citizens of Louisiana challenged the state Bureau of Health’s authority to make racial classifications.
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Racially-Mixed Personal Identity Equality Law, Culture and the Humanities First published online: 2017-03-24 DOI: 10.1177/1743872117699894 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York A growing number of commentators view discrimination against multiracial (racially-mixed) people as a distinctive challenge to racial equality. This perspective is based…
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“A question which is having some discussion here is: Can a mulatto whose father was a white man register under the ‘grandfather clause?’”
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Fear of a Multiracial Planet: Loving’s Children and the Genocide of the White Race Fordham Law Review Volume 86, Issue 6 (2018) pages 2761-2771 Reginald Oh, Professor of Law Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio Part I analyzes the Loving decision striking down antimiscegenation laws and examines the segregationists’ justifications for antimiscegenation laws. Next, Part…