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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The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 15, Number 3 (September 2006) Marie-Amélie George, Associate Lawyer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Recognizing new social forces working against the “correction”…
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Book explores racial identification The Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina 2011-04-24 Karen Spain, legal writer based in Nashville The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey From Black to White. By Daniel J. Sharfstein. Penguin. 416 pages. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, “The Invisible Line” is a fascinating history of how three…
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The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s Journal of American History Volume 87, Issue 1 (June 2000) pages 43-56 DOI: 10.2307/2567914 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University In January of 1857 Jane Morrison was sold in the…
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Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Alabama Law Review Volume 59 (2008) pages 1501-1555 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law This Article examines in detail the local and trial records of a nineteenth-century Texas case to tell the story…
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Suing for Freedom: Interracial Sex, Slave Law, and Racial Identity in the Post-Revolutionary and Antebellum South North Carolina Law Review Volume 82, Issue 2 (January 2004) pages 535- Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law Introduction A. Two Stories In 1823 in Sumner County, Tennessee, Phebe, a “colored woman”…
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Half-Breed Citizenship Bill, 1857 Oregon State Archives Echoes of Oregon History Learning Guide A Bill To enable certain Half Breeds to acquire the rights of citizenship within this Territory.Section1. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon. That any person, being the child of a white father and an Indian…
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“Abominable Mixture”: Toward the Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 95, Number 2 (April, 1987) pages 157-192 David D. Smits, Professor of History The College of New Jersey Students of Amerindian-white relations have long ascribed to the English colonists an aversion to race mixing, especially through…