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: Anthropology
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“Declared Defective” is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and…
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Communing with the Dead: The “New Métis,” Métis Identity Appropriation, and the Displacement of Living Métis Culture The American Indian Quarterly Volume 42, Number 2, Spring 2018 pages 62-190 Adam Gaudry, Assistant Professor Faculty of Native Studies & Department of Political Science University of Alberta Métis are witnessing an increase in the number of self-identified…
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“Who are your people?” is the question that repeatedly came to me as I watched Doria Ragland, Meghan Markle’s mother, sitting a few feet away from her daughter at Saturday’s royal wedding. A common expression among southern African-Americans when greeting a stranger, it is never simply a matter of bloodline or individual biography.
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Race and Class in Rural Brazil: A UNNESCO Study (2nd Edition) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 1963 158 pages Edited by: Charles Wagley (1913-1993), Professor of Anthropology Columbia University, New York, New York Photographs by: Pierre Verger (1902-1996) Read the entire publication here.
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In “Nature Knows No Color-Line,” originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examined the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that there were no scientifically evident racial divisions—all humans belong to one “race.”
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Contrary to some popular beliefs, today’s British population does not descend from one Anglo-Saxon heritage.
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For Black History Month, Catherine Walsh, professor of Afro-Andean Studies at the University Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, shares with teleSUR her views about the achievements and challenges for the construction of an Afro-descendent consciousness in Latin America.
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Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics.