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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Telling Our Own Stories: Lumbee History and the Federal Acknowledgment Process The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 2009 pages 499-522 E-ISSN: 1534-1828, Print ISSN: 0095-182X Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Being part of and writing about the Lumbee community means that history always emerges…
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Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware Chapter 5. A Larger Ethnic Community 2008 383 pages Delaware Department of Transportation Project 88-110-01 Federal Highway Administration Project F-NH-1003(13) Delaware Department of Transportation Archæological Series Number 154 Carolann Wicks, Secretary Original and redraft prepared by Edward F. Heite and Cara L.…
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Vikings Possibly Carried Native American to Europe Discovery News 2010-11-17 Medieval texts suggest the Vikings arrived in the New World more than 1,000 years ago. THE GIST DNA analysis reveals that four families in Iceland possess genes typically found in Native Americans or East Asians. Genealogical evidence revealed that these families shared a distant ancestor…
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“The Horrid Alternative”: Miscegenation and Madness in the Frontier Romance Journal of American & Comparative Cultures Volume 24, Issue 3 (Fall/Winter 2001) Pages: 137-151 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-4726.2001.2403_137.x Harry J. Brown, Assistant Professor of English DePauw University In a speech delivered to a gathering of Delaware and Mohican Indians, Thomas Jefferson foresaw the destiny of the United…
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Constructing Whiteness: Regulating Aboriginal identity University of Toronto 2009 93 pages Publication Number: AAT MR59722 ISBN: 9780494597224 Rebecca Boock A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts Graduate Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto Curricula in classrooms…
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“Hearing Radmilla” Film Screening Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W. A. Franke College of Business (bldg. 81, room 101) 2010-11-22, 19:00 to 21:30 (Local Time) Native American Heritage Month The film will be introduced by filmmaker/producer Angela Webb, Radmilla Cody–Miss Navajo Nation 1997-1998, followed by Questions & Answer session. The film follows Radmilla…
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The Pocahontas Exception: The Exemption of American Indian Ancestry from Racial Purity Law bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1572 2006-08-18 47 pages Kevin N. Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University “The Pocahontas Exception” confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous “Indian Grandmother.” Laws existed in many states that prohibited marriage between…