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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Daniel Sharfstein awarded Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by Fletcher Foundation Vanderbilt University Law School 2011-07-06 Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has been awarded an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by the Fletcher Foundation. Professor Sharfstein’s new book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, examines the…
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Living as Others in Japan Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2011 Biennial Conference Internationalising Japan: Sport, Culture and Education University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia 2011-07-04 through 2011-07-07 Wednesday, 2011-07-06, 11:00-12:30 AEDT (Local Time) Room 102 This panel will present two historical papers about individuals whose lives were…
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Why this Supreme Court could be the best hope for gay-marriage advocates The Washington Post 2011-06-24 Justin Driver, Assistant Professor of Law University of Texas, Austin Eight years ago Sunday, the Supreme Court handed down a significant victory for gay equality when it declared anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. In response, Justice Antonin…
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Multiracial students and the evolution of affirmative action Harvard Law & Policy Review 2011-06-17 Jay Willis Reduced to its elements, affirmative action is a relatively straightforward concept. Colleges and universities consider an applicant’s racial and ethnic background to ensure that they enroll sufficient numbers of students from traditionally underrepresented groups. But schools are now grappling…