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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The Racially-Mixed People of the Ramapos: Undoing the Jackson White Legends American Anthropologist Volume 74, Number 5 (October 1972) pages 1276-1285 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.5.02a00190 Daniel Collins North Carolina State University A review of the literature fails to validate the Jackson White legends which traditionally have accounted for the presence of a racially mixed collectivity in the…
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Mixed messages: ‘mixed race’ representations in film Concordia University August 2004 124 pages Naomi Angel The growing interest in issues pertaining to mixed race identities and communities, as well as a surge in films with mixed race characters has prompted this examination of representations of mixed race characters in film from the 1950s to the…
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Dorothy Roberts – Fatal Invention The Tavis Smiley Show PRI: Public Radio International 2011-07-08 Tavis Smiley, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Professor and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts explores the effects of race-based science in…
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The Biggest Lie About Race? That It’s Real The Root 2011-07-26 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Contributing Editor Dorothy Roberts says race is a social and political construct, and she won’t rest until we know it. There’s a reason we’ll never come to a consensus on the most accurate racial classifications for Barack Obama or Tiger Woods. There’s…
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Blood Quantum Land Laws and the Race versus Political Identity Dilemma California Law Review Volume 96 (2008) pages 801-838 Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Modern equal protection doctrine treats laws that make distinctions on the basis of indigeneity defined on blood quantum terms along a racial versus political paradigm. This dichotomy…
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Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Plume, an imprint of Penguin February 1996 304 pages 5.35 x 7.95in Paperback ISBN: 9780452275331 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Adobe eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Gregory Howard Williams, President University of Cincinnati Awards Los Angeles Times Book Prize Friends of…
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University of Cincinnati president has a unique perspective on his life as a black man Cleveland Plain Dealer 2011-09-11 Karen Farkas CLEVELAND, Ohio—Gregory Williams says that in the five decades since he learned he was black and moved into a tarpaper shack with his black grandmother instead of a middle-class home with his white grandmother,…