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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The Amerasian Problem: Blood, Duty, and Race International Relations Volume 21, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 86-102 DOI: 10.1177/0047117807073769 Sue-Je Lee Gage, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ithaca University The concept of ‘mixed blood’ is not a new one; however, it was not until 1982 that an unprecedented policy entitled ‘The Amerasian Act’ was created by…
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Multi-Hued America: The Case for the Civil Rights Movement’s Embrace of Multiethnic Identity The Modern American American University Volume 4, Issue 1 (Spring 2008) 8 pages Kamaria A. Kruckenberg Harvard Law School My little girl in her multi-hued skin When asked what she is, replies with a grin I am a sweet cuddlebums, A honey and…
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The Perils of Compartmentalization Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York Friday, 2008-09-26 Dennis Yang Teachers College When I arrived from California as an incoming graduate student at Teachers College, one of the first things I attempted to find was a large-scale supermarket—a task that proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Without…