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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On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child.
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Constructing “Race” and “Ethnicity” in America: Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration M. E. Sharpe November 2002 272 pages Tables, figures, references, index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-7656-0800-0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-7656-0801-7 Dvora Yanow, Professor of Public Affairs & Administration California State University, East Bay 2004 Best Book Award, Section on Public Administration Research, American Society for Public…