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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In multiracial America, the census puts us in a box Washington Post 2010-03-21 Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside I received the census form in the mail last week, and I was ready. A vaguely admonitory letter from the Census Bureau had arrived the week before, urging me to fill out…
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How to really be accurate on ‘race’ on the Census The American Thinker 2010-03-17 James Lewis Not many people like to fill in the “race” category on the Census, because we know perfectly well that it comes from the Left, which has found another way to slice and dice the American people, to set us…
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Count Yourself In California: The Census on Multiracial ID’s Spot.Us 2010-03-18 Denise L. Poon When she fills out her 2010 Census form this week, Mei-Ling Malone is looking forward to answering Question #9 ― “the race question.” She’s adamant about documenting her multiracial background. Malone, who studied multiracial politics at UC [University of California] Irvine and…
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Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census U.S. Commision on Civil Rights Briefing Report March 2009 59 pages A Briefing Before The United States Commission on Civil Rights Held in Washington, DC on 2006-04-07. On April 7, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on racial categorization in the…