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: Census/Demographics
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Large groups of people have always fallen through the cracks of its racial categories — often by design.
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I thought I was White until I learned my mother’s secret. The census helped me tell my family story.
I thought I was White until I learned my mother’s secret. The census helped me tell my family story. The Washington Post 2021-10-13 Gail Lukasik Gail Lukasik’s mother, Alvera Frederic Kalina, in New Orleans circa 1942. Kalina was born into a Black family in New Orleans but spent her life passing as White. (Family photo)…
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United States Census Shows Great Increase in Percentage of Mixed Element.
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The Census Bureau wanted to gather data about a changing nation, but ended up reinforcing old racial categories.