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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Ethnic identity of biracial individuals with one Asian parent California State University, Long Beach 2006 66 pages Publication Number: AAT 1437924 ISBN: 9780542893049 Christina A. Nguyen A Thesis Presented to the Department of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Social Work The purpose…
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The Variability of Hybrid Populations American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 16, Issue 3 (January/March 1932) pages 283–307 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330160312 K. Wagner Department of Anatomy University of Oslo On the assumption of mendelian inheritance it should be expected that hybrid populations, apart from the first generation of crossing, must show an increased variability as compared…
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The Pocahontas Exception: The Exemption of American Indian Ancestry from Racial Purity Law bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1572 2006-08-18 47 pages Kevin N. Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University “The Pocahontas Exception” confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous “Indian Grandmother.” Laws existed in many states that prohibited marriage between…
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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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Re-imagining mixed race: Explorations of multiracial discourse in Canada York University December 2008 190 pages ISBN: 9780494517864 Publication Number: AAT NR51786 Leanne Taylor A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of graduate Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation analyses discourses of racial mixture, with particular focus…
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Turning Aboriginal—Historical Bents borderlands: e-journal Volume 7, Number 2 (2008) pages 1-19 Regina Ganter, Associate Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for Aboriginal identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those…
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The designs for cultural programs on most campuses seem to imply that students possess mono-cultural identities. However, with the increase in bi-racial and multi-racial students on campus, it is time for student affairs leaders to question the design for these programs.