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: February 2012
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Use of Blood Groups in Human Classification Science Magazine Volume 112, Number 2903 (1950-08-18) pages 187-196 DOI: 10.1126/science.112.2903.187 William C. Boyd Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts —Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him! Plato, The Republic In recent…
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The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America—now updated with new content!
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It is impossible to do more by way of an introduction to a study of race mixture, but it is clear from the foregoing generalizations that concepts of racial purity are largely invalid and that the psychic homogeneity of the human species is much greater than is commonly supposed. It is also evident that differences…
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Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions American Anthropological Association 2012-02-07 Posted by Josyln O. The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA’s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting, to be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco. The AAA meeting theme this year is “Borders,” so…
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Reconstructing Race: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to a Normative Politics of Identity The Philosophical Forum Volume 43, Issue 1 (Spring 2012) pages 27–49 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2011.00409.x Andrew J. Pierce Loyola University, Chicago The claim that race is “socially constructed” has become something of a platitude in social science and philosophy. At a minimum, such a claim means to…
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Studies in Race Crossing: IV. Crosses of Chinese, Amerindians and Negroes, and their Bearing on Racial Relationships Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie Volume 47, Number 3 (March 1956) pages 233-315 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University With 36 figures on plates 24—32 and 7 figures and 41 tables in the text This paper…
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Two Minds, One Heart SAS Fronties: Research and Scholarship in the School of Arts & Sciences University of Pennsylvania February 2011 Blake Cole Undergraduate Kaneesha Parsard delves into the storied history of indentured Indian labor in the Caribbean. “Growing up I never thought much about it, except for the fact that in addition to curry…