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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Race is a Social Construction Living Anthropologically 2012-02-18 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York I usually avoid the phrase “race is a social construction.” It’s become too much of a mantra, it’s too much of a shortcut, and it is wildly misunderstood and misinterpreted. A perhaps better phrase–still concise but…
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The “ethnology” of Josiah Clark Nott Journal of Urban Health Volume 50, Number 4 (April 1974) pages 509–528. C. Loring Brace, Ph.D. Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan It is only rarely that a person so completely transcends the ethos of his age that the recorded results of his scientific endeavors can be read a…
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Race and global patterns of phenotypic variation American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 139, Issue 1 (May 2009) Special Issue: Race Reconciled: How Biological Anthropologists View Human Variation pages 16–22 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20900 John H. Relethford, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology State University of New York, Oneonta Phenotypic traits have been used for centuries for the…
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Are You an Indian? Public Broadcasting Service Independent Lens Premiere Date: 2011-11-17 Duration: 00:05:25 Though their ethnicities are mixed, the Wampanoag take pride in their tribal heritage. In this companion piece to the documentary film We Still Live Here—Âs Nutayuneân, Wampanoag tribal members discuss how their multicultural heritage both complicates and enriches their identities as…
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Black History Month: Making truth live The Windsor Star 2012-02-27 Elise Harding-Davis To me, as a Canadian woman of African origins, Black History Month is meant to share factual stories and events about North America’s African-based cultures. It is also a prime time to debunk myths and validate folklore and our cherished oral histories. …
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In the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. physical anthropologists imagined Hawai‘i as a racial laboratory, a controllable site for the study of race mixing and the effects of migration on bodily form. Gradually a more dynamic and historical understanding of human populations came to substitute for older classificatory and typological approaches in the colonial laboratory, leading…
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The mystery, myth and marvel of the Melungeons of East Tennessee Chattanooga Parent/North Georgia Parent 2012-01-08 Jennifer Crutchfield Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Even the youngest of us knows that rhyme but there is more to the story of the conquest of the New World and it was a man’s search for clues…
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The man behind the legend Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2012-02-14 Jay Stone, Postmedia News BERLIN – He was a musician, a spiritual leader, a ladies’ man, a smoker of heroic amounts of ganja, a political force and a religious icon. And, 31 years after his death, Bob Marley is still a chart-topper: His Legend…
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Finding culture in ‘poetic’ structures: The case of a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander Journal of Multicultural Discourses Online Before Print: 2012-01-18 19 pages DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2011.610507 Masataka Yamaguchi, Professor of Japanese Studies University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand In this article, I analyze discourse taken from my interviews with a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander in which he represents…