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: November 2011
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At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live. The ties—and families—these Mexicans and Chinese created during led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican.
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That no black or mulatto person or persons shall hereafter be permitted to be sworn or give evidence in any court of record, or elsewhere, in this state, in any cause depending, or matter of controversy, where either party to the same is a white person. —5 Laws of Ohio 53, approved January 25, 1807
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The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage New York University Law Review Volume 86, Number 5 (November 2011) pages 1361-1443 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law University of California, Davis This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The traditional narrative of the history of the American racial regulation…
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Critical Legal Theorizing, Rhetorical Intersectionalities, and the Multiple Transgressions of the “Tragic Mulatta,” Anastasie Desarzant Women’s Studies in Communication Volume 27, Issue 2, 2004 pages 119-148 DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162470 Marouf Hasian Jr., Professor of Communation University of Utah This essay provides a critical legal analysis of Anastasie Desarzant’s defamation case. The author argues that the use…
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Full Blood, Mixed Blood, Generic, and Ersatz: The Problem of Indian Identity Arizona and the West Volume 27, Number 4 (Winter, 1985) pages 309-326 William T. Hagan, Professor Emeritus of History State University of New York, Fredonia University of Oklahoma One of the most perplexing problems confronting American Indians today is that of identity. Who…
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The Near-White Female in Frances Ellen Harper’s Iola Leroy Phylon (1960-) Volume 45, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1984) pages 314-322 Vashti Lewis During the antebellum years, the near-white black character played a central role in the American novel. In fact, almost all of the novels of that period which feature near-white characters are antislavery tracts.…
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NEA grant and UW book contract awarded for War Baby/Love Child Laura Kina 2011-11-22 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University A National Endowment for the Arts – 2012 Art Works Grant has been awarded to a project for which I am the primary investigator (aka project…
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ENGL 487: The Mulatto in American Fiction Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Fall 2004 Jené Schoenfeld, Assistant Professor of English The mulatto balances precariously on the razor-thin edge of the color line between black and white. In the antebellum era, the mulatto’s proximity to whiteness made the mulatto an attractive object for Abolitionist sympathy. In the…