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: March 26, 2010
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Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba Slavery & Abolition Volume 31, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 29-55 DOI: 10.1080/01440390903481647 Karen Y. Morrison, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Massachusetts, Amherst This paper outlines the mechanisms used to position the offspring of slave women and white men at…
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Census Chief Apologizes for ‘Negro’ Category The New York Times 2010-03-26 Kate Phillips When Robert Groves, the director of the Census Bureau, appeared on C-Span’s “Washington Journal” program Friday morning, he found himself having to defend the racial designations on the census form… Read the entire article here.
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) consists of fifty-nine high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses, from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2007, and from the Puerto Rican Community Surveys of 2005-2007. Some of these samples have existed for years, and others were created…