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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Month: August 2010
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Blinded By the Light; But Now I See Western New England Law Review Western New England College Volume 20, Issue 2 (1998) pages 491-504 Leonard M. Baynes, Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development St. Johns University Introduction In the United States, interracial discrimination…
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Red and Black – A Divided Seminole Nation: Davis v. U.S. Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy University of Kansas School of Law Volume 14, Number 3 (Spring 2006) pages 607-638 Joyce A. McCray Pearson, Director, Law Library and Associate Professor of Law University of Kansas One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history…
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Building the “Blue” Race: Miscegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian” Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2004 pages 149-180 E-ISSN: 1534-7303 Print ISSN: 0040-4691 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2004.0008 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas Toomer’s vision of psychological evolution…
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Stalking the Biracial Hidden Self in Henry James’s The Sense of the Past and “The Jolly Corner” The Henry James Review Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2004 pages 276-284 E-ISSN: 1080-6555, Print ISSN: 0273-0340 DOI: 10.1353/hjr.2004.0027 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas This essay argues that, for James, the visible…
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Variablity in Race Hybrids American Anthropologist Volume 40, Issue 4 (October-December 1938) pages 680–697 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1938.40.4.02a00090 Wilson D. Wallis (1886-1970) In his revised edition of The Mind of Primitive Man [Read here], Professor [Franz] Boas warns against assuming “on the basis of a low variability that a type is pure, for we know that some mixed…
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Hyperdescent is the practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry in the more socially dominant of the parents’ races. Hyperdescent is the opposite of hypodescent (the practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry in the more socially subordinate parental race). Both hyperdescent and hypodescent vary from other methods of determining lineage,…