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: Native Americans/First Nation
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Six-year-old taken from California foster family under Indian Child Welfare Act The Guardian 2016-03-22 The Associated Press in Santa Clarita, California Lexi, who has lived with the foster family for years, was removed by a court order which says her Native American heritage requires her to live with Utah relatives A six-year-old girl who spent…
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Who is Black? Who is Indian? State/Federal Acknowledgment and the Politics of Racial Purity Arizona State University West Hall, Room 135 Tempe, Arizona 2016-03-21, 16:30-18:00 MST (Local Time) Arica Coleman, adjunct lecturer, Center for African Studies, Johns Hopkins University African and African American History, Widener University, will discuss the politics of racial purity in state…
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Debunking the ‘Half-Breed’ Label Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-07-01 Micah Armstrong Blackfoot Indian of the Siksika Nation Half-breed, mixed-blood, metis… These words are more than familiar to us who are not full-blooded American Indians. And by those who are not full-blooded, I do not speak of those who claim a “great-great-great grandmother who was…
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“But how Indian are you?”: notes on being a mixed-race Indigenous person. A Halfbreed’s Reasoning 2012-11-15 Samantha Nock I am mixed. It’s not like it’s a secret. I am a mixed-race, mixed-blood, hybrid, mud blood, halfbreed; these things I know to be true. The thing is, I know my identity. I am accepted by my…
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Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86 The New York Times 2016-01-29 Jack Anderson Yvonne Chouteau, one of the five celebrated Oklahoma ballerinas with an American Indian background, in a 1963 photo. Credit Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Yvonne Chouteau, a former principal dancer of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo who emerged as one of…
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White Earth members approve new constitution The Minneapolis Star Tribune 2013-11-21 Pam Louwagie New constitution does away with blood quantum rule. In a historic vote that could vastly increase their membership, White Earth Band of Ojibwe members have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution. The new document removes a requirement that tribal citizens possess one-quarter Minnesota…
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A Romance of (Miscege)Nations: Ann Sophia Stephens’ Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1839, 1860) Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 63, Number 1, Spring 2007 pages 1-25 DOI: 10.1353/arq.2007.0000 Yu-Fang Cho, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Miami University, Oxford, Ohio…
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Black Indians Formed the First American Rainbow Coalition The New York Times 1991-03-17 To the Editor: “Census Finds Many Claiming New Identity: Indian” (front-page, March 5) discusses whites who now assert their Indian blood, but fails to mention African-Americans who can claim longer and more legitimate ties to America’s Indian heritage. Many in the New…