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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“African and Cherokee by Choice”: Race and Resistance under Legalized Segregation American Indian Quarterly Volume 22, Numbers 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1998) pages 203-229 Laura L. Lovett, Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst Zora Neale Hurston once boasted that she was “the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s…
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The American Negro Science Magazine Volume 69, Number 1787 (1929-03-29) pages 337-341 DOI: 10.1126/science.69.1787.337 Robert J. Terry (1871-1966), Professor of Anatomy [See: The Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection] Washington University Medical School, St. Louis Under the comprehensive title chosen, it is my intention to discuss a single problem fundamental to studies of the colored…
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Health in Black and White: Debates on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Brazil University of California, San Diego 2011 320 pages Publication Number: AAT 3458492 ISBN: 9781124703657 Anna Pagano A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology In 2006, the Brazilian Health Council approved a…
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Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans University of Texas Press 2001 389 pages 6 x 9 in., 50 b&w illus., 4 maps Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-292-75254-2 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropolgy University of Texas, Austin The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian,…
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The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America University of Manitoba Press October 1985 306 pages 30 b&w illustrations, notes, index Paper ISBN: 9780887556173 Edited by Jacqueline Peterson, Professor Emerita of History Washington State University Jennifer S. H. Brown, Professor Emerita of History University of Winnipeg The New Peoples is the first major…
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Ethnogenesis and Ethnohistory of the Seminole Maroons Journal of World History Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 1993) pages 287-305 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles At what historic moment and by what means does a ‘people’ spring into being?” ask Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer Brown in their introduction to the 1985…
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Marriages between African and Native Americans produced many children Louisiana Weekly 2012-01-02 (Healthy Living News) —Native Americans with African ancestry produced more children than ‘full bloods’ in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, a new study demonstrates. Research by Michael Logan, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee shows that increased fertility occurred…
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American Indians with African Ancestry: Differential Fertility and the Complexities of Social Identity Human Ecology Volume 39, Number 6 (December 2011) page 727-742 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-011-9439-2 Michael H. Logan, Professor of Anthropology University of Tennessee, Knoxville Interethnic marriage represents a major trend in the demographic history of American Indians. While the majority of these unions involved Indian…