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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Day: January 13, 2011
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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…