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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Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans Southeastern Geographer Volume 48, Number 1, May 2008 pages 19-37 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0010 Amy R. Sumpter, Instructor of Geography Georgia College and State University Louisiana and the city of New Orleans have a complicated colonial…
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A Brief History of Census “Race” Knol: A unit of knowledge 2010-06-08 4 illustrations Frank W. Sweet, Independent Research Historian The U.S. federal census was founded to apportion congressional representation among the states. In order to achieve additional goals, it switched in 1850 from recording households in summary, to recording individuals in detail. It became…
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Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas Fannie Mae Foundation 2002 45 pages William H. Frey University of Michigan and the Milken Institute Dowell Myers University of Southern California This report accompanies the release of detailed racial segregation indices for 1,246 individual U.S. cities with populations…