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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Day: February 5, 2010
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Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom after being classified as a negro by the overseers of her late master’s estate. Her lawsuit is one of the earliest freedom suits in the English colonies filed by a person with some African ancestry. Elizabeth’s case also highlights those…
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White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association Vol. 18 No.9 (2008-09-15) pp. 788-791 Daniel Lipson, Professor of Political Science State University of New York, New Paltz White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and…
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Art Showcase Seeks to Study Racial Identity Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara 2010-02-02 Issue 70, Volume 90 Julie Epstein, Staff Writer The UCSB Women’s Center is currently hosting a multicultural art exhibit featuring work from students and professional artists. The art on display ranges from paintings to photography, and even includes a work…