Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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Half-Caste as Seen Through the Eyes of James Southard Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-05, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host James Southard has always been drawn to the creation of authentic stories that are visually and emotionally compelling. His love of music and photography eventually led him to the video business as…
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Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law The New York Times 1983-07-06 Frances Frank Marcus, Special to the New York Times NEW ORLEANS, July 5— Gov. David C. Treen today signed legislation repealing a Louisiana statute that established a mathematical formula to determine if a person was black. The law establishing the formula, passed by state legislators…
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Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Volume 10, Summer 2013 pages 191-218 Tina F. Botts, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pre-law Advisor University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nancy Leong’s thesis, in “Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination,” is that antidiscrimination law should make a switch…
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Mixed Breeds Are Not Negroes and May Mingle With Whites The Weekly Messenger St. Martinville, Louisiana 1910-04-30 page 3, column 2 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers The Daily Picayune The Supreme Court of Louisiana by a vote of three to two, Justices Nicholls and Land dissenting, has decided that the state law prohibiting concubinage…
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My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era LSU Press April 2001 (Originally published in 1872) 184 pages 5.50 x 9.00 inches 3 halftones ISBN10: 0807126896, ISBN13: 9780807126899 Jean-Charles Houzeau (1820-1888) Edited by David C. Rankin Translated by Gerard F. Denault When Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau arrived in New…
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The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Journal of American History Volume 100, Issue 1 (June 2013) pages 21-45 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jat082 Pierre Force, Professor of French and History Columbia University n 1813 a free man of color named Charles Decoudreau living in New Orleans went to court…
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Pacific Islanders: a Misclassified People The Chronicle of Higher Education 2013-06-03 Kawika Riley, Chief Executive and Founder Pacific Islander Access Project also adjunct lecturer at George Washington University Imagine that you’re a parent, teacher, or counselor who helped a promising student apply for financial aid. She’s an underrepresented minority, so you encouraged her to apply…
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Mixed Ethnicity, Hidden Identity The New York Times 2013-05-24 Kathryn Shattuck With his long-lashed chocolate eyes and inviting lips, used to seductive effect in “Rescue Me,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” Daniel Sunjata has the kind of face not easily forgotten, or so you’d think “If I’m exposed to crowds repeatedly, I could…