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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Human miscegenation has been and is the subject of infinite debate. Opinions on the subject are conditioned by the views of the disputants on race and racial differences, the opponents of miscegenation starting from the assumption of racial inequality, whereas its defenders take the view that the differences between human groups are not such as…
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MIT Scholar Vivek Bald uncovers forgotten history of South Asian immigrants’ New York City arrival New York Daily News 2013-01-17 Erica Pearson New book chronicles little-known story of Muslims from what’s now Pakistan and Bangladesh, who built a multiracial community in Harlem decades before they were legally allowed to immigrate to the U.S. Virtually all…
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Gouldtown traces it’s history back 250 years, began with an interracial marriage
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In “Chocolate and Corn Flour,” Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicolás, focusing on the ways in which local inhabitants experience and understand race, blackness, and indigeneity, as well as on the cultural values that outsiders place on the community and its residents.
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The Future of the Colored Race North American Review Boston, Massachusetts Number 142 (May 1886) pages 437-440 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) It is quite impossible, at this early date, to say with any decided emphasis what the future of the colored people will be. Speculations of that kind, thus far, have only reflected the mental bias…
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Beginnings of Miscegenation of Whites and Blacks The Journal of Negro History Volume 3, Number 4 (October 1918) pages 336-453 Carter G. Woodson, Founder Although science has uprooted the theory, a number of writers are loath to give up the contention that the white race is superior to others, as it is still hoped that…
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Notions of race in modern-day Mexico addressed in lecture, exhibit The Daily Tar Heel 2013-04-03 Tat’yana Berdan The Daily Tar Heel is the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The complicated and nuanced issue of race in Mexico is often overlooked, but The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture…
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The Equality of the Human Races University of Illinois Press 2002 (First published in 1885) 536 pages 5.5 x 8 in. 6 black & white photographs, 12 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07102-7 Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) Translated from the French by: Asselin Charles Introduction by: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Rhode Island College Positivist Anthropology This…
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The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio and Magoffin County, Kentucky Ohio Journal of Science Volume 50, Number 6 (November 1950) pages 281-290 Edward T. Price, Professor Emeritus of Geography University of Oregon A number of population groups of dark-skinned peoples, recognized as socially distinct in rural localities of eastern United States, are commonly assumed…