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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Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races Human Biology Volume 75, Number 4, August 2003 pages 449-471 Rich Kittles, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Illinois, Chicago Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Sewall Wright’s population structure statistic, FST, measured among samples of world…
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The Genetic Structure of Admixed Populations Genetics February 1, 1991 Volume 127, Number 2 pages 417–428 Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque A method for simultaneously estimating the admixture proportions of a hybrid population and Wright’s fixation index, FST, for that hybrid is presented. It is shown that the variance…
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Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries Chapter in: Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment (2009) Springer Part I pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_4 Décio de Alencar Guzmán The author analyses the process of mixing (mestiçagem) in the Rio Negro region during the…
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Race Mixture in Hawaii Journal of Heredity Volume 10, Issue 1 (1919) pages 41-47 Vaughan MacCaughey College of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii THE CHINESE The Hawaiian Islands arc remarkable for the diversity of races represented and for the varied conjugal race-mingling which has taken place in this tiny island world during the past hundred and fifty…
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The Origins of the Afrikaners and their Language, 1652-1720: A Study in Miscegenation and Creole Race & Class Volume 15, Number 4 (April 1974) pages 461-495 DOI: 10.1177/030639687401500404 Ken Jordaan We are a bastard people with a bastard language. Ours is a bastard nature. That is good and fine. And like all bastards, uncertain of…
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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century School for Advanced Research Press 2011 280 pages 1 map, 3 tables, 6 appendices, notes, references, index 7 x 10 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin In Becoming Indian, author Circe Sturm examines Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon…