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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Does ‘Race’ Have a Future? Philosophy & Public Affairs Volume 35, Issue 4 (Fall 2007) pages 293–317 DOI: 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2007.00115.x Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University There are simple and powerful arguments against the biological reality of race. Although the phenotypic characteristics, the manifest features that have traditionally been used to divide our…
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Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil Developing World Bioethics Volume 7, Issue 2 (August 2007) pages 104–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) Brazil has not yet approved legislation on assisted reproduction. For this reason, clinics, hospitals…
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In the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. physical anthropologists imagined Hawai‘i as a racial laboratory, a controllable site for the study of race mixing and the effects of migration on bodily form. Gradually a more dynamic and historical understanding of human populations came to substitute for older classificatory and typological approaches in the colonial laboratory, leading…
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Election of the first black mayor Daily Mail 1913-11-10 Source: mytimemachine.co.uk Coloured Mayor—Majority of One at Battersea—Dramatic Speech For the first time in the history of this country a man of colour has been elected mayor of a borough. The honour has fallen to Mr. John Richard Archer, a photographer, of Battersea Park-Road, who by…
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Spoilt for choice? New Law Journal: Leading on debate, litigation & dispute resolution Vol 162, Issue 7498 2012-01-26 Adrian Jack, Barrister & Rechtsanwalt Enterprise Chambers Encouraging greater judicial diversity is no easy task, says Adrian Jack The government is consulting on creating greater diversity in the judiciary. Where candidates for judicial appointment are of similar…