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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The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White [Discussion] Lillian Goldman Law Library Yale University 2011-03-07 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Moderator: Claire Priest, Professor of Law Yale University The Lillian Goldman Law Library together with the Yale Law School Legal History Forum and the Yale…
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The Afro-Mexican presence in Guadalajara at the dawn of independence Purdue University December 2010 85 pages Publication Number: AAT 1490649 ISBN: 9781124557854 Beau D. J. Gaitors A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University by Beau D. J. Gaitors In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Scholars often…
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Black or White? The New York Times 2011-05-14 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel J. Sharfstein is the author of “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White.” In February 1861, just weeks after Louisiana seceded from the Union, Randall Lee Gibson enlisted as a private…
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From the Curse of Ham to the Curse of Nature The British Journal for the History of Science Volume 40, Issue 3 (2007) pages 367-388 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087407009788 Robert Kenny, ARC Research Fellow The Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles…
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Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation Wisconsin Law Review Volume 2007, Number 2 (2007-01-12) pages 410-461 Carla D. Pratt, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Educational Equity; Nancy J. LaMont Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law Pennsylvania State University I. Introduction When the United States Supreme Court struck down…
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‘The offspring of infidelity’: Polygenesis and the defense of slavery Emory University 2008 506 pages Publication Number: AAT 3332327 ISBN: 9780549849544 Christopher Luse, Instructional Assistant Professor of History University of Mississippi This dissertation examines an internal debate within the antebellum South over the nature of slavery and race. Focusing on the printed materials of the…