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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On the Trail of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad The New York Times 2007-10-12 John Strausbaugh LAST month the City of New York gave Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn an alternate name: Abolitionist Place. It’s an acknowledgment that long before Brooklyn was veined with subway lines, it was a hub of the Underground Railroad: the network of…
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BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE.; The Sanford-street Catastrophe. CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED-BURIAL OF THE DEAD.
BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE.; The Sanford-street Catastrophe. CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED-BURIAL OF THE DEAD. The New York Times 1860-02-06 …AN INTERESTING SCENE IN PLYMOUTH CHURCH — PURCHASE OF A SLAVE BY THE CONGREGATION. — Another case of the ransom of a slave occurred yesterday in Plymouth Church. The circumstances were of touching interest. A good-looking and intelligent…
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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Circe Sturm (review) [Steineker] The American Indian Quarterly Volume 38, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 400-402 DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2014.0028 Rowan Faye Steineker Department of History University of Oklahoma In Becoming Indian, anthropologist Circe Sturm provides another innovative study of Cherokee identity politics to accompany…
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A summer camp where Jews of color go to ‘feel normal’ The Times of Israel 2014-08-20 Rebecca Spence With an emphasis on diverse Diaspora Judaism, Camp Be’chol Lashon has a markedly different mandate than most Jewish camps PETALUMA, Calif. (JTA) — On a cool Sunday evening, Jewish campers with nervous smiles took to the stage…
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Metis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood University of British Columbia Press 2014-05-12 284 pages 6 x 9 in. Hardcover ISBN: 9780774827218 Chris Andersen, Research and Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race” or “part Indian, part white.” Canadians…
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Whose Sperm Counts? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-08-19 Lara Freidenfelds, Historian of Sex, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in America Recently, a Canadian fertility clinic made the news because it refused to allow a white client to be impregnated with sperm from a donor of color. The clinic director told the media, “I’m…
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Black, White, or Mixed: Identity Formation and Choice Among Black-White Biracial Individuals Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 2014-08-02 82 pages Madison Alayne Hinton A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Auburn University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Identity is a term that is difficult to define, yet…