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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My Experience on the Indian-Negro Color Line Indian Country Today 2011-12-27 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Growing-up on the Indian-Negro color line (I am the daughter of a European mother and a black and Indian father), I lived with mixed signals and coded information by the dominant culture. It had determined that white European culture…
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Student reflection on the Luther Lecture Impetus Luther College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Fall 2011 Jenna Tickell Senator Lillian Eva Dyck was the 36th Annual Luther Lecturer. Senator Dyck presented her personal story in relation to the issues of racism and sexism in Canada. She began with power-point statistics and ended with…
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Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South The Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 559-588 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma My father’s name wuz Robert Stewart. He wuz a white man. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her…
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A Pedigree Study of Amerindian Crosses in Canada The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 58, (July – December, 1928) pages 511-532 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University This paper is an attempt to apply genetical methods to the study of inter-racial crossing. In the anthropological studies…
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The Racial Paradox of Tribal Citizenship American Studies Volume 46, Numbers 3 & 4 (Fall-Winter 2005) pages 163-185 Indigenous Studies Today Volume 1 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006) Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University As I begin to write this my tribal election season is at hand. As usual, all the candidates claim to be…
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This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. It was full of Native Americans, other Europeans, and Africans who were there for various reasons.
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Show me your CDIB: Blood Quantum and Indian Identity among Indian People of Oklahoma American Behavioral Scientist Volume 47, Number 3 (November 2003) pages 267-282 DOI: 10.1177/0002764203256187 James F. Hamill, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Discourse concerning the legitimacy of claims of Indian identity characterize much of the debate in Indian country…
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Mixed-Race Identity in a Nineteenth-Century Family: The Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27 Michigan Historical Review Volume 25, Number 1 (Spring, 1999) pages 1-23 Jeremy Mumford, Visiting Assistant Professor of History Brown University In the autumn of 1824 the Schoolcraft family set out from Sault Ste. Marie, at the mouth of Lake Superior in northern…