Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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“A Whole New Race”: Chinese Cubans and Hybrid Identities in Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 7, Issues 1 & 2 (Fall 2009) 14 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Ann Marie Alfonso-Forero, Dissertation Editor Graduate School, University of Miami More so than its predecessors Dreaming in Cuban and The Agüero Sisters, Cristina García’s…
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Skin Color of Mulattoes Journal of Heridity Volume 5, Number 12 (December 1914) pages 556-558 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Apparently Four Factors Involved—Segregation in Second Generation—Skin Pigment Developed After Birth—No Correlation Between Color of Skin and Curliness of Hair in…
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The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw] Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) 8 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Kathryn Morris Andrew R. Wilson, Editor. The Chinese in the Caribbean. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2004, xxiii+230 pp. The Hakka are a migratory people. We move outwards on the tides of history. Most of…
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Hybrid Types of the Human Race: Racial Mixture as a Cause of Conspicuous Morphological Changes of the Facial-type The Journal of Heredity Volume 12, Number 6 (June 1921) pages 274-280 Herman Lundborg (1868-1943) Race-Biological Institution, Uppsala, Sweden It has been possible for recent hereditary research to show that some racial qualities are inherited according to Mendel’s…
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Another Woolly-Hair Mutation in Man The Journal of Heredity Volume 25, Number 9 (September 1934) pages 337-340 C. Ph. Schokking Rotterdam, Holland A Dutch peasant family living near Leiden carries a dominant gene for a type of woolly hair characteristic of the Negro races. This is not to be explained as due to race crossing…
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The Skin Color of Children from White By Near-White Marriages The Journal of Heredity Volume 38, Number 8 (August 1947) pages 233-234 Curt Stern (1902-1981), Professor of Zoology and Genetics [Read a biographical memoir by James V. Neel here.] University of California, Berkeley It is well known that the inheritance of color differences in negro-white crosses…
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New Challenges in Measuring Race in the United States 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics Omni Shorem Hotel, Washington, D.C. 2010-08-17 46 pages/slides Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research The Multiracial Movement of the 1990s [page/slide 2] After Census 1990, a small social movement…