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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- 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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Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader New York Univeristy Press 2003-02-01 512 pages ISBN: 9780814742570 Edited by: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies University of California Davis For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify…
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Crimes of ‘Blood’: A comparative analysis of South Africa’s Immorality Act (1927 & 1950) and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949), and Miscegenation Laws in North America W.E.B. DuBois Insitute for African and African American Research at Harvard University Date: Spring 2010 Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town This study compares…
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Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press 2006 192 pages ISBN (paperback): 9780881460742 ISBN (hardback): 9780881460131 Tim Hashaw Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name “children of perdition” to…
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Revisiting The Hollow Hope: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Repeal of Interracial Marriage Restrictions Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-13 21 pages Nancy Martin This paper outlines a research proposal for the analysis of the state-by-state repeal of interracial marriage restrictions, and particularly…
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The Historical Legal Construction of Black Racial Identity of Mixed Black-White Race Individuals: The Role of State Legislatures Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association Manchester Hyatt San Diego, California 2008-03-20 Richard T. Middleton, IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper is an…
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Nation and Miscegenation: Comparing Anti-Miscegenation Regulations in North America Canadian Political Science Association 80th Annual Conference 2008-06-04 through 2008-06-06 Paper Dated: 2008-05 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly forty years after Loving v. Virginia, the historical prohibition of interracial relationships in the United States exemplifies the state’s regulation of intimate life.…