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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Three Is Not Enough The Daily Beast Newsweek Magazine 1995-02-12 Sharon Begley, Senior Health and Science Correspondent Reuters In 1990, Americans claimed membership in nearly 300 races or ethnic groups and 600 American Indian tribes. Hispanics had 70 categories of their own. To most Americans race is as plain as the color of the nose…
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The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization The Gorham Press 1907 281 pages Library of Congress: E185.61 .S38 R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. (1850-1934) Contents I. Man’s Place in Nature from a Biological Standpoint. II. The Ethnological Status of the Negro. III. The Introduction of the Negro into the United States.—The African Slave Trade. IV. Biological…
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The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind Clarendon Press 1903 53 pages James Bryce From page 18: Nothing really arrests intermarriage except physical repulsion, and physical repulsion exists only where there is a marked difference in physical aspect, and especially in colour. Roughly speaking (and subject to certain exceptions to be…
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Miscegenation Illustrated Columbus Daily Enquirer Columbus, Georgia 1865-10-27 page 2, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Extracts from a new Book of Travel, by an American Physician. The Mixture of Race in Peru. The aboriginal race was the Indian; and subsequently there came into the country the Spaniard, the negro, and more recently the…
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LTAM 140 – Topic in Culture and Politics: Being Brazilian: Race, Cannibalization and Animality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse University of California, San Diego Winter 2010 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies This course provides an introduction to Brazilian culture through essays, poetry, fiction, music and films that consider the meaning of…
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Mixed-Blood Marriage in North-Western New South Wales: A Survey of the Marital Conditions of 264 Aboriginal and Mixed-Blood Women Oceania Volume 22, Number 2 (December 1951) pages 116-129 Marie Reay This survey is based on family records of over 300 aboriginal and mixed-blood women in north-western New South Wales, collected during 1945-6. The records were…
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Bengali Harlem The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC 93.9 FM/ 820 AM 2013-01-11 Brian Lehrer, Host Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vivek Bald, documentary director and assistant professor of writing and digital media at MIT and the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian…