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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Another Woolly-Hair Mutation in Man The Journal of Heredity Volume 25, Number 9 (September 1934) pages 337-340 C. Ph. Schokking Rotterdam, Holland A Dutch peasant family living near Leiden carries a dominant gene for a type of woolly hair characteristic of the Negro races. This is not to be explained as due to race crossing…
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The Skin Color of Children from White By Near-White Marriages The Journal of Heredity Volume 38, Number 8 (August 1947) pages 233-234 Curt Stern (1902-1981), Professor of Zoology and Genetics [Read a biographical memoir by James V. Neel here.] University of California, Berkeley It is well known that the inheritance of color differences in negro-white crosses…
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New Challenges in Measuring Race in the United States 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics Omni Shorem Hotel, Washington, D.C. 2010-08-17 46 pages/slides Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research The Multiracial Movement of the 1990s [page/slide 2] After Census 1990, a small social movement…
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The Shifting Race-Consciousness Matrix and the Multiracial Category Movement: A Critical Reply to Professor Hernandez Boston College Third World Law Journal Volume 20, Number 2 (Spring 2000) pages 231-290 Reginald L. Robinson, Professor of Law Howard University In this article, the author posits that race as an idea begins with consciousness that reinforces that race…
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Multiracial Patterns in the United States By State Public Research Report No. 2001-02 Race Contours 2000 Study: A University of Southern California and University of Michigan Collaborative Project Released: 2001-04-13 Noel Hacegaba, Adjunct Instructor of Public Administration University of La Verne, La Verne, California Dowell Myer, Professor of Public Policy University of Southern California The…
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DNA Is Only One Way to Spell Identity The Washington Post 2006-01-01 W. Ralph Eubanks Every year,” I once overheard my father say jokingly to a friend, “thousands of Negroes disappear.” I remember my 8-year-old imagination going into overdrive, picturing people zapped from their homes in the middle of the night. It was only as…