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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Cross ’12, Castagno ’12 Participate in Mixed Race Conference The Wesleyan Connecton Welyean University’s Newsletter 2010-12-02 Olivia Drake Rachel Cross ’12 and Alicia Castagno ’12 participated as panel members in a session of the Critical Mixed Race Conference sponsored by dePaul University in Chicago Nov. 5-6 [2010]. The conference was attended by academicians and students…
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Destabilizing Racial Classifications Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 887-952 Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Perre Bowen Professor of Law; Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law University of Virginia Analogy to trademark law offers…
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“What Are You?”: Exploring Racial Categorization in “Nowhere Else on Earth” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 39, Number 1 (Fall, 2006) pages 33-53 Erica Abrams Locklear, Assistant Professor of Literature & Language University of North Carolina, Asheville In his introduction to the 1985 collection of essays entitled “Race,” Writing, and Difference, Henry Louis Gates rightfully…
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The Coe Ridge Colony: A Racial Island Disappears American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 710–719 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00350 Lynwood Montell Western Kentucky University The ninety year history of a racial isolate in the Kentucky–Tennessee border is examined. Peopled by a mixed population of Whites, Blacks, and, occasionally, Indians, the community received notoriety as…
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The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 719–734 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00360 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina Admixture of White, Negro, and Indian peoples of the Southeastern United States from colonial days on has led to some unique populations isolated…
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The American Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 693–694 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320 B. Eugene Griessman Auburn University More than 200 American isolates have been identified historically in at least eighteen of the eastern states of the United States. Their total population has been estimated at 75,000. Those who populate these communities commonly…
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On Mixed-Racial Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 76, Issue 2 (June 1974) pages 343–344 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1974.76.2.02a00190 G. Harry Stopp, Jr. Louisiana State University In recent articles on American isolates (American Anthropologist 74: 693-7 34) Beale, and Dane and Griessman predicted change for “mixed-racial” communities in the United States stemming from the recent civil rights legislation. They…
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An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 704–710 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00340 Calvin L. Beale Economic Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture The subject of the paper is population groups of real or alleged tri-racial origin—Indian, White, and Negro. There is a…
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Graduate Student Profile: Chelsea Guillermo-Wann (Education) UCLA Graduate Quarterly University of California, Los Angeles Fall 2010 pages 6-7 Growing up in Santa Barbara, Chelsea Guillermo-Wann started “developing concepts of white and brown” while she was still in grade school, concepts that gave her a different understanding of her white mother and brown father—his heritage both…
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“The Horrid Alternative”: Miscegenation and Madness in the Frontier Romance Journal of American & Comparative Cultures Volume 24, Issue 3 (Fall/Winter 2001) Pages: 137-151 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-4726.2001.2403_137.x Harry J. Brown, Assistant Professor of English DePauw University In a speech delivered to a gathering of Delaware and Mohican Indians, Thomas Jefferson foresaw the destiny of the United…