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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Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana… Octoroon means a person of fourth-generation black ancestry. Genealogically, it means one-eighth black. Typically an…
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Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana… …Quadroon usually referred to someone of one-quarter black ancestry; that is, with three white grandparents…
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Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…
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How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s “Black, Jewish, and Interracial.”
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American Anthropological Association Statement on “Race” 1998-05-17 The following statement was adopted by the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, acting on a draft prepared by a committee of representative American anthropologists. It does not reflect a consensus of all members of the AAA, as individuals vary in their approaches to the study of…
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Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States Westview Press 1999-08-12 240 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0813336775; ISBN-13: 978-0813336770 Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas Recent times have seen the rise of a movement lobbying for explicit recognition of multiracial identity as…
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Shifting Whiteness: A Life History Approach to U.S. White Parents of “Biracial” or “Black” Children Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Joshua Carter Woodfork, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 This research examines how…
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Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain Canadian Political Science Association 81th Annual Conference 2009-05-27 through 2009-05-29 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University By examining racial classifications in national censuses this paper will explore moments of policy convergence that defy domestic explanations…
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Nation and Miscegenation: Comparing Anti-Miscegenation Regulations in North America Canadian Political Science Association 80th Annual Conference 2008-06-04 through 2008-06-06 Paper Dated: 2008-05 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly forty years after Loving v. Virginia, the historical prohibition of interracial relationships in the United States exemplifies the state’s regulation of intimate life.…