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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Savage Half-Breed, French Canadian or White US Citizen? Louis Riel and US Perceptions of Nation and Civilisation National Identities Volume 7, Issue 4, 2005 pages 369-388 DOI: 10.1080/14608940500334390 Lauren L. Basson, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Ben-Gurion University, Israel Louis Riel was the late nineteenth-century leader of the Métis, an indigenous, North American people…
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Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, “In/visible Sight” examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonisation in southern New Zealand.
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Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Web Source: History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web Walter White, A Man Called White 1948; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969 pages 5–12 Walter White (1893-1955) The riots that broke out between 1898 and 1906 were part of a pattern…
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White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP The New Press Fall 2002 496 pages Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-56584-773-6 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence From…
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Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Why and How? The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 292, Number 13 (2004) pages 1612-1614 DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.13.1612 Margaret A. Winker, MD, Deputy Editor and Online Editor Journal of the American Medical Association Race and enthnicity are constantly evolving concepts, deceptively easy to measure and used ubiquitously in the biomedical literature,…
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In the South, regardless of hair-splitting dictionary or legal definitions, it is customary to regard as negro any person who is known to have any negro blood in his veins; this despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Louisiana has lately handed down a decision restricting the term “negro” to those having a greater…
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THE CONGRESS: Black’s White TIME Magazine 1938-01-24 To Negro Lee Jones, a 31-year-old mill-hand of Greensboro, Ala., last week’s doings in the U. S. Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When…
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Science: Savants TIME Magazine 1924-08-18 Women’s barber shops call themselves beauty parlors. Drug stores call themselves ice cream parlors. Clerks call themselves salesmen. Politicians call themselves statesmen. Flappers call themselves young ladies. But scientists call themselves scientists, and only newspapers call them savants. But the word “savants” has been spread in the headlines of newspapers…