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: May 3, 2010
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Don’t tell me who I am The Guardian 2002-01-12 Libby Brooks, Deputy Comment Editor Jackie Kay has become used to all kinds of assumptions being made about her identity—literary, national, sexual and familial. The more annoying, because the joy of being a writer is that you can create any persona you like. On the other…
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Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise and Triumph of the One-Drop Rule Backintyme Publishing 2005 542 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479238 Frank W. Sweet Every Year, 35,000 Black-Born Youngsters Redefine Themselves as White About 1/3 of “White” Americans have detectable African DNA Genealogists were the first to learn that America’s color line leaks. Black…
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What is particularly interesting about the high percentage of multiracial children is that children do not fill out census forms. Children are being identified as multiracial by their parents, or by the parent who fills out the census form as the head of the household. This tends to corroborate the claim that the multiracial movement…