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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Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle The Eugenics Review Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1959) pages 93-97 Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research This paper was prepared at the request of the Department of Immigration for discussion by delegates at the Australian Citizenship Convention. The…
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Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process University of Nebraska Press 2004 355 pages paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8321-3 hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3226-6 Mark Edwin Miller, Associate Professor of History Southern Utah University The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria…
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The Political Ontology of Race Polity 2011-10-17 DOI: 10.1057/pol.2011.15 Michael Rabinder James, Associate Professor of Political Science Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Race theory is dominated by two camps. Eliminativists rely on a biological ontology, which contends that the concept of race must be biologically grounded, in order to repudiate the very term, on grounds…
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The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage New York University Law Review Volume 86, Number 5 (November 2011) pages 1361-1443 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law University of California, Davis This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The traditional narrative of the history of the American racial regulation…
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Commentary: Debating Coloured Identity in the Western Cape African Security Review Volume 14, Number 4 (2005) pages 118-119 Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow Security Sector Governance Programme Institute of Security Studies, (Tshwane) Pretoria The nature and form of coloured identity in the Western Cape has been vociferously debated. Coloured identity became a particular concern after…