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 25, 2011
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Admixture in a biologically African caste of Black Americans American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 74, Issue 2 (October 1987) pages 265–273 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330740213 Curtis W. Wienker, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology University of South Florida Social and historical factors account for much of the variation in European ancestry among different Black American populations, including that…
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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…