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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The multiracial idea has at least two versions. One is that multiracial people are of mixed blood or mixed genetic material. The other is that multiracial people are those with parents of different recognizable races. On examination, both of these positions present problems. The first is most blatantly tied to the racist science of the…
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The most striking characteristic of the free Negro communities was the prominence of the mulatto element. About thirty-seven per cent of the free Negroes in the United States in 1850 were classed as mulattoes, while only about a twelfth of the slave population was regarded as of mixed blood. Although no definite information exists concerning…
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We have a high threshold for political gossip and, in the digital age, genealogy is a fast fad that shows no sign of passing out of vogue. But the primary reason these ancestry stories entrance us is because they bring us face-to-face with our national fascination with and anxieties about racial miscegenation. Alondra Nelson, “Obama…
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No feature of the race problem throughout the Americas is more important, or more insistent, than is that of racial intermixture. Notwithstanding its vital importance to, each of the three races primarily involved—the Indian, the Negro, and the Caucasian—there has been no persistent and no effective effort to cause these races either to understand what…
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[G. Reginald] Daniel, who grew up black in Kentucky, said he has been thinking about his racial identity since Dec. 2, 1955, when his first-grade teacher reported that Rosa Parks had been arrested for refusing to let a white passenger have her seat on the bus. “It’s time we colored people stood up for our…
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“It’s absolutely poetic,” [Sheryll] Cashin said of the discovery. “Race mixing was here from the beginning.” Krissah Thompson, “Obama’s purported link to early American slave is latest twist in family tree,” The Washington Post, July 30, 2012. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/purported-obama-link-to-first-american-slave-is-latest-twist-in-presidents-family-tree/2012/07/30/gJQAYuG1KX_story.html
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…but I’m honestly moving away from biracial & even mixed—I am so disillusioned by the whole notion of ‘race’ at all. Fanshen Cox, “One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for her Father’s Racial Approval,” #swirlchat, July 27, 2012. http://storify.com/swirlinc/one-drop-of-love-a-daughter-s-search-for-her-fathe
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The truth is that the hybrid finds himself alive and human, with all that this signifies in terms of capacity for soul development. The pure-bred has no better initial equipment. In the matter of human fundamentals they come to differ only as a different nurture plays upon a very similar human nature. There surely are…
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The claim that persons identifying as multiracial suffer health risks due to the lack of a federal multiracial category is without foundation. On March 1 and 2, 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry conducted their Workshop on the Use of Race and Ethnicity in…