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: November 2010
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Ecological Framework for Understanding Multiracial Identity Development American Psychological Association 2002 1 page (chart) Maria P. P. Root A graphical representation of the factors involved in multiracial identity development. View the chart here.
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The Estimation of Admixture in Racial Hybrids Annals of Human Genetics Volume 35, Issue 1 (July 1971) pages 9–17 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1956.tb01373.x Robert C. Elston, Professor & Chair, Distinguished University Professor Case Western Reserve University When a racial hybrid population has arisen from the intermarriage of two or more parental populations, a problem of interest is…
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Multiple Realities: A Relational Narrative Approach in Therapy With Black–White Mixed-Race Clients Family Relations Volume 52, Issue 2 (April 2003) pages 119–128 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2003.00119.x Kerry Ann Rockquemore Tracey A. Laszloffy Notions of a racial identity for persons with one Black and one White parent have assumed the existence of only a singular identity (first Black…
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Race Categorization and the Regulation of Business and Science Law & Society Review Volume 44, Issue 3-4 (September/December 2010) pages 617–650 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2010.00418.x Catherine Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Rutgers University John D. Skrentny, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and Professor of Sociology University of…
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Gene admixture in human populations: Models and predictions American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 29, Issue Supplement S7 (1986) pages 1–43 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330290502 Ranajit Chakraborty, Robert A. Kehoe Professor and Director of Center for Genome Information University of Cincinnati Brief accounts of methods for estimating proportions of admixture in populations and individuals of hybrid origin…
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Biracial Identity The Lion’s Roar Issue 27-2 (September 2010) Student-Run Newspaper of Newton South High School Newton, Massachusetts Caroline Rosa, Managing Editor Rachel Leshin, Managing Editor Approaching the lunch table where her black friends were seated, sophomore Kayla Burton tried beginning to bridge the racial gap between her friend groups. But when she tried to…
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The Monster Inside: 19th Century Racial Constructs in the 24th Century Mythos of Star Trek The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 31, Issue 1 (Summer 1997) pages 23–35 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.3101_23.x Denise Alessandria Hurd That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black—bright red as…
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In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010) Perspectives on History November 2010 Estelle Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University Scholar of gender, race, and the U.S. West; 2009 winner of AHA’s William H. Dunning Prize and Joan Kelly Prize Peggy Pascoe, the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of ethnic studies…