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 Crossing in Man (Eugenics Lab. Mem. XXXVI) [Review] American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 6, Number 1 (March 1954) pages 195–196 Kenneth S. Brown University of Chicago By J. C. Trevor, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1953, Pp. 45 This brief monograph is a mixed blessing. On one hand it demonstrates what a wealth…
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This book contains the results of Prof. Fischer’s investigations and is a model for those who will follow in his footsteps. His observations have convinced him that a new and permanent human race cannot be formed by the amalgamation of two diverse forms of man–not from any want of fertility—for amongst the Bastards there is…
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“Race Crossing in Man: The Analysis of Metrical Characters” [Review by L. C. Dunn] Race Crossing in Man: The Analysis of Metrical Characters. J. C. Trevor (“Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs,” XXXVI.) London: Cambridge University Press, 1953. 45 pp., 1 plate. American Anthropologist Volume 56, Issue 5 (October 1954) pages 923-924 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1954.56.5.02a00490 L. C. Dunn Columbia…
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Miscegenation and competing definitions of race in twentieth-century Louisiana Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 621-659 Michelle Brattain, Associate Professor of History Georgia State University MARCUS BRUCE CHRISTIAN, AN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR AT DILLARD University, observed in the mid-nineteen-fifties that while New Orleans might be known for “gumbo, jambalaya, lagniappe,…
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Julianne Jennings: The mixed blood of Indians explained The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2009-01-30 Julianne Jennings Willmantic, Connecticut EUROPEAN EXPLORERS discovered a land inhabited by an agricultural people who grew corn, beans and squash and who had a sophisticated system of government that, some would argue, would later be adopted by the United States.…
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Asian American Studies: Building Academic Bridges – Nitasha Sharma The Department of African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois October 2010 Ronald Roach NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA Title: Assistant Professor of African-American and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of alifornia at Santa Barbara; M.A., Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A.,…
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Black and White: The Relevance of Race-Unfinished Business The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi chapter at Agusta State University Activities for Fall 2001 2001-10-05 5 pages Christopher Murphy Department of History and Anthropology Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia Several centuries ago, as Europeans first explored the distant, unknown reaches of the globe, it became…
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Trans/formative identities: narrations of decolonization in mixed-race and transgender lives University of Victoria 2007 114 pages Sarah E. Hunt A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Interdisciplinary in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Department of Anthropology This interdisciplinary research paper explores story and metaphor…