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: Tri-Racial Isolates
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The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 719–734 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00360 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina Admixture of White, Negro, and Indian peoples of the Southeastern United States from colonial days on has led to some unique populations isolated…
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The American Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 693–694 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320 B. Eugene Griessman Auburn University More than 200 American isolates have been identified historically in at least eighteen of the eastern states of the United States. Their total population has been estimated at 75,000. Those who populate these communities commonly…
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On Mixed-Racial Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 76, Issue 2 (June 1974) pages 343–344 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1974.76.2.02a00190 G. Harry Stopp, Jr. Louisiana State University In recent articles on American isolates (American Anthropologist 74: 693-7 34) Beale, and Dane and Griessman predicted change for “mixed-racial” communities in the United States stemming from the recent civil rights legislation. They…
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An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 704–710 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00340 Calvin L. Beale Economic Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture The subject of the paper is population groups of real or alleged tri-racial origin—Indian, White, and Negro. There is a…
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Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 18, Number 1 (January 1966) pages 26-38 W. S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill R. M. Menegaz-Bock Genetics Training Committe University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill J. C. Herion Department of Medicine University of North Carolina,…
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The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Volume 11, Issue 1 (June 2001) pages 131-146 DOI: 10.1525/jlin.2001.11.1.131 Anita Puckett, Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University How this binary system is discursively constituted depends upon the ways in which elements of a repertoire interconnect…