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: History
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German science and black racism—roots of the Nazi Holocaust The FASEB Journal (The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Volume 22, Number 2 (2008) pages 332-337 DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-0202ufm François Haas, Associate Professor Department of Rehabilitation Medicine New York University The Nazi’s cornerstone precept of “racial hygiene” gave birth to their policy…
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One of the most remarkable results of the arrival of Europeans in the New World may often be taken for granted: the emergence of the mestizo component in Latin American societies. The racial mixing that occurred in the Hispanic New World is the subject of this important study, which draws on a wide variety of…
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Elizabeth Fenwick Adams – Did she or didn’t she? A family history mystery. Historic Places in South Jersey 2011-03-07 J. Wright Twice this past week on gloriously sunny days that smelled of spring, friends and I headed down the highway on the trail of the mystery of Elizabeth Fenwick Adams and her alleged connection with…
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Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…
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Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…
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Caught up in a scientific racism designed to breed out the black The Sydney Morning Herald 2008-02-14 Debra Jopson She was removed as a toddler and raped as a ward of the state. Valerie Linow knows only too well the tragedy of assimilation policy, writes Debra Jopson. The stolen child Valerie Linow is certain she…