Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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[Daniel Fiedler] Segregating children is wrong The Korea Herald 2012-03-13 Daniel Fiedler, Professor of Law Wonkwang University This year under the guidance of the Seoul Office of Education a new elementary school and a new high school were opened in the Seoul area. While generally the opening of new schools would not be cause for…
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Métis identity matters Winnipeg Free Press 2011-02-09 Editorial The question of Métis identity has befuddled Canadians, governments and the courts ever since Louis Riel occupied Upper Fort Garry in 1869 and established a provisional government. Just who were these troublemakers, who had their own language, customs and practices, and who now claimed territorial rights? Well,…
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Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhood February 2009 44 pages Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center Michigan State University Forthcoming in a 2011 University of Wyoming Law Review issue. American Indian tribes and nations are at a crossroads. One on hand, many tribes like the Cherokee…
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A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen’s Descendents bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1570 2006-08-17 72 pages S. Alan Ray, President Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois The Cherokee Nation today faces the challenge of determining its citizenship criteria in the context of race. The article focuses on the Cherokee Freedmen.…
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No School Left Behind: Providing Equal Educational Opportunities: Where Have All the Lovings Gone?: The Continuing Relevance of the Movement for a Multiracial Category and Racial Classification After Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Volume 11, Number 3, Spring 2008 pages 409-452 Shalini R.…
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Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (review) Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2011) pages 208-210 E-ISSN: 1080-6512; Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0007 Kirin Wachter-Grene University of Washington, Seattle Jared Sexton. Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Anxieties about American multiracial identity and practices, known…