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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Blinded By the Light; But Now I See Western New England Law Review Western New England College Volume 20, Issue 2 (1998) pages 491-504 Leonard M. Baynes, Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development St. Johns University Introduction In the United States, interracial discrimination…
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Red and Black – A Divided Seminole Nation: Davis v. U.S. Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy University of Kansas School of Law Volume 14, Number 3 (Spring 2006) pages 607-638 Joyce A. McCray Pearson, Director, Law Library and Associate Professor of Law University of Kansas One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history…
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Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity Duke University Press 2008 264 pages 5 photographs, 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Wesleyan University In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those…
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Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent—that “one drop” of African blood categorized one as Black—as one of the powerful ways that law and society…
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The true story of a slave who became the wealthiest black woman in the South