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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Classifying racial and ethnic group data in the United States: the politics of negotiation and accommodation Journal of Government Information Volume 27, Issue 2 (March-April 2000) pages 129–156 DOI: 10.1016/S1352-0237(00)00131-3 Alice Robbin, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Indiana University, Bloomington “Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity,” formerly…
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The Elizabeth Warren Situation Is More Complicated Than Many Think Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-10-10 Laura Waterman Wittstock Seneca Nation A ton of ink has been spilled on the subject of the Elizabeth Warren run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Most of the writing on the Indian side of opinion is whether or…
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The Miscegenation of Richard Mentor Johnson as an Issue in the National Election Campaign of 1835-1836 Civil War History Volume 39, Number 1, March 1993 pages 5-30 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.1993.0043 Thomas Brown White American men of the antebellum era abhorred few, if any, things more than the danger of an “amalgamation” of their race with African…
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Race has become a prominent focus for human biotechnology. Despite often good intentions, genetic technologies are being applied in a manner that may provide new justification for thinking about racial difference and racial disparities in biological terms—as if social categories of race reflect natural or inherent group differences.
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A.C.T.O.R. presents Dorothy Roberts Busboys and Poets 14th & V Streets, NW Washington, D.C. Langston Room 2012-10-07, 17:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) 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 Dorothy Roberts is author of “Fatal Invention: How Science,…