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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The Mulatto to His Critics Eugenical News Volume VII (7), Number 8 (August, 1922) page 100 Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., gives this answer to the critics of the mulatto: “Ashamed of my race? And of what race am I? I am many in one. Through my veins there flows the blood Of Red Man, Black…
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While the William Shatner era of Star Trek isn’t exactly the first thing that springs to mind as a predecessor of the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying movement, Buzzfeed’s got an excerpt from the advice pages of a 1968 teen magazine called FaVE displays Leonard Nimoy’s sensitivity to the plight of one particular young woman.
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Eugenics in South America Eugenical News Volume 7, Number 3 (March, 1922) pages 17-42 Reginald G. Harris Ever since the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of inheritance plant and animal breeders have been occupied with conducting experiments on a large number of widely varying types of organisms. These experiments hare brought to light the method of…
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Lyn Dickens relates her experiences of being a young Eurasian woman in Australia
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In “Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses,” Betsy Erkkilä argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea of America itself as it was constituted and…