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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Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Magazine December 1994 pp. 32–35 Jonathan Marks, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article I was…
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“Confounding the Color Line” is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex…
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“We Have Always Been:” Mixed Race Experiences in the USA and French Polynesian (Tahitian) Contexts: 2010 Exploration Seminar in Tahiti University of Washington Exploration Seminars Dates of Instruction: 2010-08-22 through 2010-09-10 Program Director: Steve Woodard and Alejandro Espania (Minority Affairs) Ia Ora Na, friend! Please know that this three (3) week seminar will take place in…
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Becoming Mexican Across the Pacific: The Expulsion of Mexican Chinese Families from Mexico to China and Diasporic Imaginings of a Mexican Homeland, 1930s–60s American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-10 11:40 PST (Local Time) San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Torrey 3 (Marriott) San Diego, California Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History…
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“El Destierro de los Chinos”: Popular Perspectives of Chinese-Mexican Interracial Marriage as Reflected in Poetry, Cartoon, Comedy, and Corridos American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-10 11:20 PST (Local Time) San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Torrey 3 (Marriott) San Diego, California Robert Chao Romero, Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies University of California,…
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Status, Race, and Marriage: French Continental Law versus French Colonial Law American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:30 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Valérie Gobert-Sega École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France In its most traditional moral and legal conception, marriage…
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Intimacy and the Atlantic World American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:50 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago In 1755 the merchant Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau returned to his native city of La Rochelle, a…
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Patterns of Mixed-Race Migration to Britain in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 15:10 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri With tremendous gender and racial disparities, miscegenation and interracial…
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Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009-06-11 through 2009-06-14 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso On May 12, 1960, the Mexican Chinese community leader in Macau, Ramón Lay…
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Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide? Social Problems Volume 56, Number 3 (August 2009) Pages 425–446 DOI 10.1525/sp.2009.56.3.425 Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa How do multiracial groups “fit” into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the United States? Are the outcomes of multiracial individuals…