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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Professor: Racial categorization remains necessary in Census Medill Washington Medill News Service Medill School, Northwestern University 2011-08-08 Angie Chung WASHINGTON—Does where we come from tell us whom we are? Why do we come in different colors? Does skin color equal race? Talking about racial issues can be a never-ending discussion. It’s complicated. The Census…
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A Snug Little Flock: The Social Origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70 Watson & Dwyer Publishing, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1991 290 pages ISBN: 0-920486-48-7 Frits Pannekoek, President Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who…
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Historical Fantasy, Speculative Realism, and Postrace Aesthetics in Contemporary American Fiction American Literary History Volume 23, Number 3 (Fall 2011) pages 574-599 E-ISSN: 1468-4365 Print ISSN: 0896-7148 Ramón Saldívar, Professor of History Stanford University Since the turn of the century, a new generation of minority writers has come to prominence whose work signals a radical…
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Between Two Worlds: Consequences of Dual-Group Membership among Children University of Texas, Austin May 2008 98 pages Katherine Vera Aumer-Ryan Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Increasing numbers of individuals are simultaneously…
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Deconstructing Jaco: Genetic Heritage of an Afrikaner Annals of Human Genetics Volume 71, Issue 5 (September 2007) pages 674–688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00363.x J. M. Greeff, Professor of Genetics University of Pretoria It is often assumed that Afrikaners stem from a small number of Dutch immigrants. As a result they should be genetically homogeneous, show founder effects…