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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(W)rites of passing: The performance of identity in fiction and personal narratives University of Massachusetts, Amherst February 2006 108 pages Publication Number: AAT 3212756 ISBN: 9780542630743 Tracy L. Vaughn Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 2006…
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So… What are You, Anyway 2012 Conference on Multiracial Identity: Exploring Our Roots Hosted by Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2012-04-06 through 2012-04-07 Welcome to the fourth annual conference on multiracial identity and politics, hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association on April 6 – April 7, 2012. Join us this year in…
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Mixed Race Week by SHADES of CSU Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 2012-04-02 through 2012-04-06 Monday, Apr. 2, marks the beginning of the 4th-annual Mixed Race Week, a series of presentations and activities celebrating the multiracial and interracial community at Colorado State University. This annaul event is sponsored by Shades of CSU, an…
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Daniel Sharfstein wins 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Vanderbilt Law School News Vanderbilt University 2012-03-16 Daniel Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has won the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for his sensitive account of the fine line people of mixed race have tread in the United States since the nation’s beginning, The Invisible…
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In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction that we are neatly divided into black or white. It is only with the widespread availability of DNA testing and the boom in genealogical research that the frequency with which individuals and entire families crossed the color…
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“Teachable Moments”: The Use of Child-Centered Arguments in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate California Law Review Volume 98, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 121-158 Ruth Butterfield Isaacson, Associate Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick LLP, San Francisco Child-centered arguments have played a central role in debates over expanding marriage rights throughout history. Opponents of interracial marriage…