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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Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Volume 103, Number 12 (December 1994) pages 32-35 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article…
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The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia Palgrave Macmillan 2012-01-03 304 pges 13.800 x 8.250 inches, includes 10 pgs illus ISBN: 978-0-230-34018-3, ISBN10: 0-230-34018-0 Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton, Adjunct Research Fellow Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of…
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Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island Science Magazine Volume 65, Number 1693 (1927-06-10) page x DOI: 10.1126/science.65.1693.0x-s Providing the original stock is sound, inbreeding among human beings results in no deterioration, physical or mental. Nor does mixture of widely differing races produce an inferior type. Such are the conclusions of Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, ethnologist…
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Methods of Racial Analysis Science Magazine Volume 63, Number 1621 (1926-01-22) pages 75-81 DOI: 10.1126/science.63.1621.75 E. A. Hooton Significance of the Term “Race” The term “race” as applied to man is commonly employed with no accurate and well-defined meaning. One often sees references to the “white race,” the “Jewish race,” the “Latin race,” the “Irish…
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The African Presence in Brazil: Slavery, Resistance, Miscegenation and Strategic Popularization of Afro-Brazilian Music Culture Kalamazoo College 2004 69 pages Danielle Dubois Flax This thesis intends to investigate the history of slavery in Brazil, its effects on the demographic, psychological and political reality of Afro-Brazilians, and most essentially: how representations of Afro-Brazilian music and culture…
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Creole Is, Creole Ain’t: Diachronic and Synchronic Attitudes toward Creole Identity in Southern Louisiana Language in Society Volume 29, Number 2 (June, 2000) pages 237-258 Sylvie Dubois, Gabriel Muir Professor of French Studies Louisiana State University Megan Melançon, Associate Professor of English Georgia College Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups…