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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Nature prevents the development of the mongrel; in the few cases in which nature has for the time being successfully been outraged and a mongrel produced, nature degrades that mongrel mercilessly and in time stamps it out. Nature suffers no mongrel to live. Alfred P. Shultz. Race or mongrel: a brief history of the rise…
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I read the identitarian discourses surrounding Obama differently. The posing of these questions around identity betrays our subconscious recognition that we are not there yet—we remain burdened by a default racial calculus. Even the semantics of being post-racial reveals the persistence of race and racial constructions. We do not even have terminology, let alone the…
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I think balancing personal experience and personal stories with an understanding of our past and also scholarly work and research… finding a balance between those. Because that we find that people who are really interested in the emotional/personal stories tend to not have a lot of background information. And then we find vice-versa, that the…
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The other thing is, as Reggie [G. Reginald Daniel] said, Reggie knows that we are all multiracial. He doesn’t need a genetic test to prove that. I mean, we know that. Even though this can tell us new information—and I think it is an opportunity for conversation—it’s not enough because we already know it and…
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Trials contesting racial identity illustrate the ways that racial categories have come into being over the course of U.S. history. Through them we can observe the changing meaning of race throughout our history, and the changes and continuities in racism itself, from the roots in a slave society up through the twentieth century. Drawing lines…
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For some time past the writer has been in close contact with girls of Anglo-Chinese and Anglo-Negro origin who are unable to find employment because social stigma refuses to allow them to mix in our society in the ordinary way. They are British citizens, and they are the weakest of our citizens, and as such…
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In full agreement with this suggestion of glandular disturbance is the general opinion of biologists that the human hybrid shows a typical instability in mental and moral respects—a want of balance. His motives and actions are incalculable, his impulses stronger that his self-control. I feel more and more convinced that the inmates of our prisons…
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It is known that neither the Indian nor Negro contends in dignity and esteem with the Spaniard; nor do any of the others envy the lot of the Negro, who is the “most dispirited and despised”. […] It is held as systematic that a Spaniard and an Indian produce a mestizo; a mestizo and a…
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There is a smugness associated with this valorization of contemporary racial mixture that is palpable if one is not party to the celebration, a smugness that is a complement to the rejection of the mulatto of history that I considered toward the end of Chapter 6. It is in that regard a double insult to American…