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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Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Book Review) Civil War Book Review Louisiana State University Special Collections Kelly Kennington, 2009-2010 Law & Society Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Legal Studies University of Wisconsin Law School Jones, Bernie D. Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, University of Georgia Press. 216 pages.…
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History 270: Topics In American History – Mixed Race Identity in American Culture Spring 2010 Greg Carter, Assistant Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Through most of the United States’ history, laws have been in place to prevent interracial intimacy and the production of mixed-race offspring, and the Tragic Mulatto figure, victim of confusion…
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The Color of Testamentary Freedom Southern Methodist University Law Review Volume 62 p. 1783 2009 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Wills that prioritize the interests of nontraditional families over collateral heirs test courts’ dedication to observing the posthumous wishes of testators. Collateral heirs who object to will provisions that redraw the…
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Slaves in the Family: Testamentary Freedom and Interracial Deviance 2008 50 pages Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University This Article addresses the deviance of interracial sexuality acknowledged in testamentary documents. The language of wills calls into question the authority of probate and family law by forcing issues of deviance into the public…
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The African community in colonial Mexico under Spanish and Catholic rule.