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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Racial Passing Ohio State Law Journal Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law Vol. 62: 1145 (2001) Frank R. Strong Law Forum Lecture Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School I. Passing: A Definition Passing is a deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from…
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Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2006 262 pages Cloth: 0-7391-1393-3 / 978-0-7391-1393-6 Paper: 0-7391-1394-1 / 978-0-7391-1394-3 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the…
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Book Review: Spencer, R. (1999). Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States: Boulder, CO: Westview. Spencer, R. (2006). Challenging Multiracial ldentity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Journal of Black Studies Volume 38, Number 4 (March 2008) pages 679-683 DOI: 10.1177/0021934706296761 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the…
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Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History Issue Five 2002 pp. 1-22 Satoshi Mizutani This article examines the ambivalent meanings of mixed-race presence in late colonial India (from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries). In doing so it contributes insights for pursuing…
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Interracial Families and the Racial Identification of Mixed-Race Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Social Forces Volume 84, Number 2 (December 2005) pages 1131-1157 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0007 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In this article, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged children is used from the Early Childhood…
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Multiraciality Reigns Supreme? Mixed-Race Japanese Americans and the Cherry Blossom Queen Pagent Amerasia Journal 1997 Volume 23, No. 1 pp. 113-128 Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Lecturer in Sociology National University of Ireland, Maynooth The notes of the koto echo through the hall and I am mesmerized by the vision on stage. Beautiful Japanese women dressed in…
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The Blurring of the Lines: Children and Bans on Interrracial Unions and Same-Sex Marriages Fordham Law Review May 2008 Volume 76, Number 6 pages 2733-2770 Carlos A. Ball, Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar Rutgers University School of Law, Newark When Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter drove from their hometown of Central Point,…
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Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference Berg Publishers September 2007 224 pages, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9781845202439 Hardback ISBN: 9781845202422 Ebook ISBN: 9781847883438 Mica Nava, Professor of Cultural Studies University of East London Cultural theorist Mica Nava makes an original and significant contribution to the study of cosmopolitanism by exploring everyday English…
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As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms…
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This article explores how religion served as a vessel for one particular language crucial to racial segregation in the South: the language of miscegenation. It was through sex that racial segregation in the South moved from being a local social practice to a part of the divine plan for the world. It was thus through…