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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Although anti-miscegenation laws generally have been analyzed as racial legislation, they also can tell us a great deal about intimacy. These provisions have certainly been used to define and entrench racial difference, but they are also a means to set the boundaries of sexual decency and marital propriety. Here, I will use the comparative experience…
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Sex, Blood, and Hybridity: The Discourse of Racial Anxiety in Antebellum Writing Northeast Modern Language Association NeMLA 2012 Convention Rochester, New York 2012-03-15 through 2012-03-18 This panel seeks to investigate how antebellum literary texts worked dialectically with the new racial science of ethnology to respond to the dominant racial ideologies of the day. Topics and/or…
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School Hygiene and Eugenics: The Role of Physical Education in Regeneration “The Brazilian Race” Revista HISTEDBR On-Line Number 35 (September 2009) pages 19-28 ISSN: 1676-2584 Karl M. Lorenz, Associate Professor, Director Teacher Certification Programs Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut From 1870 to 1930, physicians, writers, anthropologists and educators discussed the relationship between education and the…
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Individuals and groups today in 2011 that insist and demand we all tell our whole “racial truth,” are no less misguided and insidious than the Virginians who insisted and demanded “racial integrity” in 1924. Steven F. Riley, “Don’t Pass on Context: The Importance of Academic Discourses in Contemporary Discussions on the Multiracial Experience,” (paper presented…
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Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (State legislature of Virginia) The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 of Virginia, United States, was a law that had required the racial makeup of persons to be recorded at birth, and prevented marriage between “white persons” and non-white persons. The law was the most famous ban on miscegenation in the…
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Nation, miscegenation, and the myth of the mulatta/o monster 1859-1886 Universite de Montreal (Canada) 2009 261 pages Publication Number: AAT NR60321 ISBN: 9780494603215 Jessica Alexandra Maeve Murphy These presentee a la Faculte des etudes superieures En vue de l’obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en etudes anglaises “Nation, Miscegenation, and The Myth of the…
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Craniometric Study of the Cape Coloured Population Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa Volume 33, Issue 1 (1951) pages 29-51 DOI: 10.1080/00359195109519876 J. A. Keena Department of Anatomy University of Cape Town (With Plate XI and three Text-figures.) (Read November 16, 1949.) The Cape Coloured people inhabit Cape Town, the Cape Peninsula and…