Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Black–White Biracial Students in American Schools: A Review of the Literature Review of Educational Research Volume 79, Number 2 (June 2009) pages 776-804 DOI: 10.3102/0034654309331561 Rhina Fernandes Williams, Assistant Professor of Education Georgia State University With increasing numbers of students who identify as Black and White multi-racial and with the persistence of the Black–White test…
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Mixing It Up: Early African American Settlements in Northwestern Ohio Journal of Black Studies Volume 39, Number 6 (July 2009) pages 924-936 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707305432 Jill E. Rowe, Assistant professor, African American studies Virginia Commonwealth University Prior to the 19th century, African American settlers founded a number of productive communities in northwestern Ohio. During this time…
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“…’race’ as it is understood … was a social mechanism invented in the eighteenth century to refer to those populations brought together in colonial America: … European settlers, conquered Indians, and Africans brought in to supply slave labor… [Race] … subsumed a growing ideology of inequity devised to rationalize European attitudes and the treatment of…
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The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2009 (2009-06-12 to 2009-06-13) The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is an annual free public event celebrating stories of the Mixed [race] experience through films, readings, workshops and live performance. The Festival is an inclusive event which brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists,…