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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Category: Politics/Public Policy
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Brazil’s Affirmative-Action Quotas: Progress? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012-11-05 Ibram H. Rogers, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies State University of New York, Albany Brazil recently passed what was probably the most sweeping affirmative-action law in the modern history of higher education. While the livelihood of affirmative action in the United States is in the…
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Aliens Admitted Here! Evening Post Wellington, New Zealand Volume LVI, Issue 96 1898-10-20 Page 4 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa The House cannot be congratulated on the treatment it meted out last night to the Immigration Restriction Bill, and the Premier showed a lamentable lack of power…
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Race in a Bottle Scientific American Volume 297 (January 1, 2007) pages 40-45 Jonathan D. Kahn, Professor of Law Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science. This article focuses on the drug, BiDil – a drug…
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Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The question posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native American” at various…
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Racial Commodification in the Era of Elective Race: Affirmative Action and the Lesson of Elizabeth Warren University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 92 31 pages 2012-08-20 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law Gould School of Law University of Southern California This Essay uses the current controversy over the racial…