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: August 2011
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Biracialism in American Society: A Comparative View American Anthropologist Volume 57, Issue 6 (December 1955) pages 1253–1263 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1955.57.6.02a00150 Ruth Landes Our culture exercises certain values forcefully through our interracial arrangements, principally Negro and white. Comparison with other white-governed societies receiving Negroes reveals the uniqueness in American developments, above all in the operations of Negro…
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Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians Parallax Volume 13, Number 2 (2007) pages 6-20 DOI: 10.1080/13534640701267123 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Not so long ago, the question ol the racial identity of the Ancient Egyptians passed beyond the narrow…
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Race and Genomics. Old Wine in New Bottles? Documents from a Transdisciplinary Discussion NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Volume 16, Number 3 (August 2008) pages 363-386 DOI 10.1007/S00048-008-0301-6 Staffan Müller-Wille ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society University of Exeter Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin, Germany From July 25 to 29,…
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Studied in race crossing VI. The Indian remnants in Eastern Cuba Genetica Volume 27, Number 1 (1954) pages 65-96 DOI: 10.1007/BF01664155 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University A preliminary account was given at the 30th International Americanist Congress, Cambridge, England, August, 1952. Received for publication July 27, 1953 This paper is in one…
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A Mystery of a People WUNC 91.5, Chapel Hill The State of Things North Carolina Public Radio 2011-07-28 Isaac-davy Aronson, Host Questions of racial identity and cultural heritage have long surrounded a group of Appalachians called the Melungeons. In recent years, curiosities have been piqued about this loosely connected group of people, spawning DNA testing,…