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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Virginia’s Caroline County, ‘Symbolic of Main Street USA’ The Washington Post 2012-02-10 Carol Morello Bowling Green, Va. — Only a few easily overlooked markers note the importance of Mildred and Richard Loving in Caroline County, where five decades ago the sheriff rousted the white man and his black bride from their bed and carted them…
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Census: Few among Az’s tribes claim to be multiracial Tucson Sentinel 2012-01-26 Victoria Pelham Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The number of American Indians who claimed to be multiracial jumped sharply over the last decade, but not so much in Arizona, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. The bureau said the total number of American Indian…
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Census releases data on American Indian population Miami Herald 2012-01-25 Felicia Fonseca Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Almost half of American Indians and Alaska Natives identify with multiple races, representing a group that grew by 39 percent over a decade, according to U.S. Census data released Wednesday. Of the 5.2 million people counted as Natives…
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Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In University of British Columbia Press 2011-10-11 308 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774820813 Edited by: Avigail Eisenberg, Professor of Political Science University of Victoria Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Queen’s University In an age of multiculturalism and identity politics, many minority groups seek some…
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Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…
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Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter? Poverty & Race November/December 1994 Lawrence Wright Chester Hartman, Director of Research Poverty & Race Research Action Council Last fall, the House Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, chaired by Rep. Thomas Sawyer (D-OH), held a series of hearings on modification of the existing racial categories used by the…