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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My ethnographic data argue that despite Cuba’s colourblind racial democracy – where race “does not matter” because all races are “treated equally” – the familial narratives of ancestry actively reinforce the complex racial landscape and illustrates the superiority of whiteness that belie this ideal.
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In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America.
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Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States American Journal of Biological Anthropology Volume 175, Issue 2, June 2021 (Special Issue: Race reconciled II: Interpreting and communicating biological variation and race in 2021) pages 422-436 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24212 Elizabeth A. DiGangi, Associate Professor of Anthropology Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton,…
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A growing number of forensic researchers are questioning how the field interprets the geographic ancestry of human remains.