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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Mixed-Race Identity in a Nineteenth-Century Family: The Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27 Michigan Historical Review Volume 25, Number 1 (Spring, 1999) pages 1-23 Jeremy Mumford, Visiting Assistant Professor of History Brown University In the autumn of 1824 the Schoolcraft family set out from Sault Ste. Marie, at the mouth of Lake Superior in northern…
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Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’ The Associated Press 2011-12-04 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one…
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121C-Mixed Race in America University of California, Santa Cruz Examines what it means to be of mixed race in America along historical, social, political, and cinematic lines. Theories on racial and identity formation applied to understanding multiracial experiences of various racial groups in the U.S.
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Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process University of Nebraska Press 2004 355 pages paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8321-3 hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3226-6 Mark Edwin Miller, Associate Professor of History Southern Utah University The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria…
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Origin, Development and Maintenance of a Louisiana Mixed-Blood Community: The Ethnohistory of the Freejacks of the First Ward Settlement Ethnohistory Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring, 1979) pages 177-192 Darrell A. Posey Georgia State University The Fifth Ward Settlement is composed of approximately 2,500 mixed-blood (Black, While and Indian) inhabitants called “Freejacks.” The Settlement has developed…
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Professor Alcira Dueñas: Illuminating the Andes: Indigenous and Mestizo Intellectuals in Colonial Peru ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Ohio State University Autumn 2009 Michael J. Alarid A citizen of Colombia, Professor Alcira Dueñas is a historian who conducts research on the cultural and intellectual history of Amerindians and other subordinated groups of the Peruvian Andes during the…