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: March 2012
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Before state’s high court: role of race in identifying a face Seattle Times 2012-03-03 Ken Armstrong, Staff Reporter In a case out of Seattle’s University District, the Washington State Supreme Court is being asked to determine whether jurors should be told that eyewitnesses who identify strangers across racial lines — for example, a white man…
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Race is a Social Construction Living Anthropologically 2012-02-18 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York I usually avoid the phrase “race is a social construction.” It’s become too much of a mantra, it’s too much of a shortcut, and it is wildly misunderstood and misinterpreted. A perhaps better phrase–still concise but…
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The “ethnology” of Josiah Clark Nott Journal of Urban Health Volume 50, Number 4 (April 1974) pages 509–528. C. Loring Brace, Ph.D. Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan It is only rarely that a person so completely transcends the ethos of his age that the recorded results of his scientific endeavors can be read a…
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The Mulatto a Hybrid-probable extermination of the two races if the Whites and Blacks are allowed to intermarry The American Journal of the Medical Sciences Volume 6, Issue 11 (July 1843) pages 252-256 Josiah C. Nott, M.D. Mobile, Alabama The reader will probably be astonished at this late clay to sec so novel an assertion…
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Does ‘Race’ Have a Future? Philosophy & Public Affairs Volume 35, Issue 4 (Fall 2007) pages 293–317 DOI: 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2007.00115.x Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University There are simple and powerful arguments against the biological reality of race. Although the phenotypic characteristics, the manifest features that have traditionally been used to divide our…
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Passing, Traveling and Reality: Social Constructionism and the Metaphysics of Race Noûs Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2004) pages 644–673 DOI: 10.1111/j.0029-4624.2004.00487.x Ron Mallon, Associate Professor of Philosphy University of Utah Among race theorists, the view that race is a social construction is widespread. While the term ‘social construction’ is sometimes intended tomeanmerely that race…
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Race and global patterns of phenotypic variation American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 139, Issue 1 (May 2009) Special Issue: Race Reconciled: How Biological Anthropologists View Human Variation pages 16–22 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20900 John H. Relethford, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology State University of New York, Oneonta Phenotypic traits have been used for centuries for the…
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Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil Developing World Bioethics Volume 7, Issue 2 (August 2007) pages 104–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) Brazil has not yet approved legislation on assisted reproduction. For this reason, clinics, hospitals…