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: January 2011
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Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: “After the Conflict Came the History” American Anthropologist Volume 106, Issue 4 (December 2004) pages 663–674 DOI: 10.1525/aa.2004.106.4.663 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by…
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Brief communication: Admixture analysis with forensic microsatellites in Minas Gerais, Brazil: The ongoing evolution of the capital and of an African-derived community American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 139, Issue 4 (August 2009) pages 591–595 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21046 Marília O. Scliar Departamento de Biologia Geral, ICB Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, MG, Brazil Marco T. Vaintraub GENETICENTER—Centro…
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In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race.
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Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes Biography Volume 23, Number 4 (Fall 2000) pages 670-693 E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0043 Juda Charles Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Desire to us Was like a double death, Swift dying Of our mingled breath, Evaporation Of an unknown…
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A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 124, Number 491 (Winter 2011) pages 120-121 E-ISSN: 1535-1882 Print ISSN: 0021-8715 Sharon Downey Varner Department of English University of South Alabama Hodes, Martha. A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love,…
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Notes on physical anthropology of Australian aborigines and black-white hybrids American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 8, Issue 1 (January/March 1925) pages 73–94 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330080105 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Introduction In September 1914, after the meetings of the British Association…
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The Catholic Church and the Formation of Metis Identity Past Imperfect Volume 9 (2001) pages 65-87 Jacinthe Duval This essay explores the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Metis in the Red River colony in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how missionaries, via their intellectual artifacts, have been responsible for shaping popular contemporary…
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Moya `Tipimsook (“The People Who Aren’t Their Own Bosses”): Racialization and the Misrecognition of “Métis” in Upper Great Lakes Ethnohistory Volume 58, Number 1 (Winter 2011) pages 37-63 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2010-063 Chris Andersen, Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta Scholars have long noted the central place of racialization in the last five centuries of…