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: September 2010
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The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation University of North Texas December 2007 93 pages OCLC: 227035319 | ARK: ark:/67531/metadc5185 Alicia Edison Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science Biracial individuals undergo a developmental process that is different than monoracial individuals. Not only do they have to develop a strong and…
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Righteous Fathers, Vulnerable Old Men and Degraded Creatures: Southern Justices on Miscegenation in the Antebellum Will Contest Tulsa Law Review Volume 40 (2005) pages 699- Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University Although scholars have long addressed the role of legislators and local elites in policing the color line between black and white,…
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What’s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France French Historical Studies Volume 33, Number 3 (2010) Pages 357-385 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2010-002 Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago The Saint-Domingue planter Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown La…
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Variability and Racial Mixture The American Naturalist Volume 61, Number 672 (Jan. – Feb., 1927) paages 68-81 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University [Read a biographical memoir by Joseph C. Greenberg here.] [From Northwestern University: In 1948, Herskovits founded the Program of African Studies (PAS) at Northwestern, the first…
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Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…