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: Social Science
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Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 University of British Columbia Press 2009-05-15 288 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774816335 Paperback ISBN: 9780774816342 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism remain politically charged in former settler societies. Colonial Proximities historicizes these contestations by illustrating…
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Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance University of North Carolina Press April 2004 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 19 illus., 2 charts, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2868-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5531-7 Daylanne K. English, Associate Professor of English & Chair Macalester College Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American…
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Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction University of North Carolina Press December 2004 416 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 22 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2902-8 Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-5567-6 Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New York University Between 1877 and 1930–years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration,…
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African Americans and National Identities in Central America Rina Cáceres, Professor of Diaspora Studies Program at the Centro de Investigationes Historicas de America Central Universidad de Costa Rica Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mount Holyoke University Mauricio Meléndez An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually,…
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Students’ growing refusal to state a race on forms frustrates school officials Sacramento Bee 2010-01-18 Stephen Magagnini Sacramento, California — About half of the 37 students in teacher Jeanne Kirchofer’s Laguna Creek High School classroom, who span nearly every combination of race and ethnicity, have joined the growing number of California students who decline to…
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Hideously diverse Britain: the college where histories collide The Guardian 2010-01-10 Hugh Muir It was 1940 and the 200 students of South West Essex Technical College posed ramrod straight on the sharply inclined steps; ties stiff, uniforms crisp. They were RAF cadets learning science and engineering at the place that was dubbed the People’s University.…
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College applications in a post-race world: Admissions process will soon need to address class concerns GW Hatchet Independent Student Paper of George Washington University 2010-01-14 Evan Schwartz, Columnist In a recent editorial for The Boston Globe, columnist Neal Gabler railed against what he referred to as “the college admissions scam” and a perceived bias in…
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Six degrees of Princeton’s African-American history: America writ small Princeton Alumni Weekly Rally ‘Round the Cannon 2010-01-13 Gregg Lange, Class of 1970 The New York Times’ recent genealogy study of Michelle Obama ’85, noting for the first time her slave and mixed-race heritage, seemingly surprised a broad swath of the populace. This indicates that we…
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Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 (Working Paper) 33 pages Updated 2008-07-03 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses on contemporary issues and dynamics, often overlooking a…
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“Race and the Cherokee Nation” examines how leaders of the Cherokee Nation fostered a racial ideology through the regulation of interracial marriage. By defining and policing interracial sex, nineteenth-century Cherokee lawmakers preserved political sovereignty, delineated Cherokee identity, and established a social hierarchy.