Mixed Race Studies

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  • One Thing I Can’t Pass On to My Daughter: White Privilege

    One Thing I Can’t Pass On to My Daughter: White Privilege Brain, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers 2013-10-24 Martha Wood Momsoap: Sometimes I froth at the Mouth A while back, I met up for a play date with another white mother to children of color. As we sat chatting and watching our daughters play,…

  • The Fluidity

    The Fluidity Neither/Both: my mixed-race experience 2013-10-19 Lola Osunkoya I went to the skating rink on a night I don’t usually go, and found myself to be the only female of color there.  It was unusual to me because on my regularly night, it’s a predominantly Black crowd.  In this stage of my identity development,…

  • Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1

    Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1 Reality Asserts Itself The Real News Network 2013-10-23 Paul Jay, Host Glen Ford, Executive Editor Black Agenda Report On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the…

  • Virgina Ban on Interracial Marriages Goes to Federal Court This Week

    Virginia Ban on Interracial Marriages Goes to Federal Court This Week The New York Times 1965-01-24 page 43 RICHMOND, Jan. 23—A constitutional test of Virginia laws that make it a crime for a white person to marry a Negro will begin here next week. The case is regarded as certain to go to the United…

  • Interracial couples now part of mainstream

    Interracial couples now part of mainstream The Chicago Tribune 2013-10-23 Dawn Turner Trice, Reporter Mixed-race relationships becoming more common in Chicago — and everywhere else Stephen Blessman and Patricia Jones Blessman met in the mid-1990s and fell in love. It didn’t matter to either of them that he’s white and she’s African-American. They have a…

  • crossings: undone presents, pyrrhic futures

    crossings: undone presents, pyrrhic futures The State Dubai, U.A.E. Voicing 2013-03-30 Tiana Reid Columbia University “Cyaan live split. Not in this world.” The first time I read Michelle Cliff’s 1987 book No Telephone to Heaven, I immediately forgot which character had said this line. Was it Harry/Harriet, the queer Jamaican character? Or was it Clare…

  • Indiana’s Miscegenation Laws: An Ineffective Racist Agenda

    Indiana’s Miscegenation Laws: An Ineffective Racist Agenda Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana May 2013 57 pages Megan M. Harris An Undergraduate Honors Thesis (HONRS 499) Miscegenation laws have played an influential and explanatory role in Indiana’s perception and attitudes about interracial relationships. Indiana had stringent regulations against such unions, which existed for a large portion…

  • How Indiana Punishes Miscegenation

    How Indiana Punishes Miscegenation The New York Times 1879-05-21 Terre Haute, Ind., May 20.—William Nelson, a colored man, was sentenced to-day to pay a fine of $5,000 and be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for one year for marrying a white woman. The prosecution originated in spite, but Nelson was convicted under the law of 1856,…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Twenty-First Century (ETHN 0090B S01)

    Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Twenty-First Century (ETHN 0090B S01) Brown University Fall 2013 Alexandrina R. Agloro, Visiting Instructor in American Studies This course will guide students through an understanding of the historical, contemporary, and ideological rationale behind the constructions of mixed race, and how mixed race theory plays out in history, art, and…

  • Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Fourth Edition)

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed “Racism without Racists” documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society.