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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’Marginal Whiteness California Law Review Volume 98, Number 5 (October 2010) pages 1497-1594 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California How are whites injured by minority-targeted racism? Prior to filing her Title VII interracial solidarity claim, Betty Clayton thought she knew. For years, Clayton, a white cafeteria worker employed by the…
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Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-Race People California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 1233-1291 Kenneth E. Payson Introduction “What are you?” As the child of a Japanese mother and a White father, I have often been asked this question. While I am also male, heterosexual,…
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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana Louisiana State University Press April 2011 328 pages 6 x 9 inches, 21 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807137932 Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. Rachel L. Emanuel Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was…
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The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence College of Law Faculty Scholarship Paper 74 January 2008 56 pages Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Janis L. McDonald, Professor of Law Syracuse University This article offers a theory of racial identity divorced from biological considerations. Law fails to recognize the complexity of…
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The Negro Defined The Yale Law Journal Volume 20, Number 3 (January, 1911) pages 224-225 In many of the states where a considerable portion of the population is colored, statutes define the term negro and establish his status where the same is considered, because of local conditions, as essentially different from that of Caucasians. Where…