Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Native Americans/First Nation
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The alchemy of American music as it relates to Native Americans is such a voluminous subject that, inevitably, the fascinating “Rumble” can’t do it justice.
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“Blood Will Tell” reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934…
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If you don’t have time to educate yourself, then I can’t help you
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New insights on an important Native American writer
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50 or 25 percent blood quantum or lineal descent, every tribe has its own criteria for mandatory percentage Indian
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“Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition” is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression.
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More than a century after being hanged for treason, Métis leader Louis Riel still has the power to polarize Canadians along ethnic lines.
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“Those Who Belong illustrates” the ways in which Anishinaabeg of White Earth negotiated multifaceted identities, both before and after the introduction of blood quantum as a marker of identity and as the sole requirement for tribal citizenship.