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: United States
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Multiracial America Makes Census Boxes Obsolete The Root 2013-11-04 Keli Goff As the nation becomes more multiracial, some question whether the survey can accurately reflect the country’s true diversity. Editor’s note: This is the first of three in a series. (The Root) — In 30 years, America will look very different than it does now.…
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Written records agree with Melungeon DNA results Jack Goins’ Melungeon and Appalachian Research October 2013 William E. Cole University of Tennessee Joe Stevenson Looney University of Tennessee Written records agree with Core Melungeon DNA Results. The Core Melungeon DNA Project was formed with Family Tree DNA on July 25, 2005. The goal of the project…
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Mixing Racial Messages Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2013-10-30 Ryan Wong Starting with its title, the group exhibition War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art at Seattle’s Wing Luke museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories? How do…
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African-Americans and Latinos: Conflict or Collaboration? Ebony Magazine 2012-09-25 Eugene Holley, Jr. As Latinos now outnumber African-Americans as this country’s largest minority, could there be a political, social and economic union with our brown brothers and sisters? In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month – which runs through October 15th – EBONY interviewed African-Americans and Hispanics…
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Black History’s Missing Chapters: ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,’ on PBS The New York Times 2013-10-18 Felicia R. Lee The television mini-series “Roots,” about the slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants, is a classic, inspired by real lives and real history. But it is a truism among historians that young people do…
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Analysis of a Tri-Racial Isolate Human Biology Volume 36, Number 4 (December 1964) pages 362-373 William S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Based on a paper presented at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia, May 2, 1962 A relatively isolated population in the state of…
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Booker Sworn In as U.S. Senator The New York Times 2013-10-31 Jennifer Steinhauer, Congressional Reporter WASHINGTON — Cory A. Booker, who gained celebrity as a danger-dodging, super-tweeting mayor of Newark, was sworn in as New Jersey’s junior United States senator on Thursday, the first African-American to be elected to the chamber since Barack Obama in…