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 as a social question in Brazil The Rice Institute Pamphlet Volume 27, Number 4 (October 1940) pages 218-241 Carlos M. Delgado de Carvalho (1884-1990) I. ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF THE BRAZILIAN POPULATION At first sight, it seems that race could be considered as the capital element of the biological aspect of society. Race is a…
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Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World Texas A&M University Press 2010-07-12 168 pages 6 x 9, Illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60344-192-6 Edited by: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Christopher Morris, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With the recent election of the nation’s first…
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Native, Aboriginal, Indigenous: Who Counts as Indian in Post Apartheid Virginia Mid-Atlantic Conference on the Scholarship of Diversity, Conference Proceedings Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia April 2004 17 pages Jay Hansford C. Vest, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies University of North Carolina, Pembroke In 1948, sociologist William Gilbert wrote: “Indian blood still remains noticeable in…
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It is important, in any consideration of the American Negro, to understand the use of the term. The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer, for the African Negroes, brought to the United States as slaves, have crossed in breeding with the dominant White population, as well as with the aboriginal American Indian types with whom…
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Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge University of Nebraska Press 2004 357 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-2187-1 Jerry Gershenhorn, Professor of History North Carolina Central University Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world…
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Leonard Darwin Scholarship of the Eugenics Society Nature Volume 138, Number 3496 (1936-11-31) page 756 DOI: 10.1038/138756a0 The Eugenics Society has established a second Leonard Darwin scholarship, which is to be devoted to the investigation of racial crossing. The first holder is J. C. Trevor, a graduate of Oxford in anthropology, who has spent the…
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Comparative studies of full and mixed blood North Dakota Indians Psychological Monographs Volume 50, Number 5 (1938) pages 116-129 DOI: 10.1037/h0093522 C. W. Telford The early comparative studies of Indian-white mixtures in America uniformly reported superior mental test performances of mixed as compared with full blood Indians. The tests used in these investigations were principally…