Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation Wisconsin Law Review Volume 2007, Number 2 (2007-01-12) pages 410-461 Carla D. Pratt, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Educational Equity; Nancy J. LaMont Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law Pennsylvania State University I. Introduction When the United States Supreme Court struck down…
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Between Race and Nation: The Plains Metis and the Canada-United States Border University of Wisconsin, Madison May 2009 419 pages Publication Number: AAT 3384469 ISBN: 9781109476347 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the…
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New Guinea: Racial Identity and Inclusion in the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indian Communities of New York New York History Volume 90, Number 3 (Summer 2009) 23 paragraphs Christopher Geherin In 1818 the Stockbridge Indians initiated a series of land sales to the state of New York in order to finance the relocation of the tribe…
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“A Being of a New World:” The Ambiguity of Mixed Blood in Pauline Johnson’s “My Mother” MELUS Volume 27, Number 3, Native American Literature (Autumn, 2002) pages 43-56 Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Studying mixed-blood/Métis history reveals that an overwhelming number of unions between Europeans and Native people happened between a…
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A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 43, Number 2 (June 1953) pages 138-155 Edward T. Price Los Angeles State College A Strange product of the mingling of races which followed the British entry into North America survives in the presence of a…
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Mark Tawin’s Mississippi: Race, 1800-1850 Mark Twain’s Mississippi Project Partners: Northern Illinois University Libraries, The Newberry Library, The St. Louis Mercantile Library, Tulane University Libraries and University of California, Berkeley Made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services 2005 Peter J. Kastor, Associate Professor of History and American Culture Studies…
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Multicultural Artist and Educator to Speak at UVU Utah Valley University Orem, Utah 2011-03-24 Jim Rayburn Louie Gong, a nationally-recognized artist and mixed-heritage advocate, will speak at Utah Valley University on March 31 at 2 p.m. at the Sorensen Student Center, room 206A. Gong—of Nooksack, Squamish, Chinese, French and Scottish descent—is known best for his…
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Half-Breed Citizenship Bill, 1857 Oregon State Archives Echoes of Oregon History Learning Guide A Bill To enable certain Half Breeds to acquire the rights of citizenship within this Territory.Section1. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon. That any person, being the child of a white father and an Indian…
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“Abominable Mixture”: Toward the Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 95, Number 2 (April, 1987) pages 157-192 David D. Smits, Professor of History The College of New Jersey Students of Amerindian-white relations have long ascribed to the English colonists an aversion to race mixing, especially through…