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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“White Latino” Leaders: A Foregone Conclusion or Mischaracterization of Latino Society The Modern American Volume 3, Issue 2 (Summer-Fall, 2007) Article 11 pages 62-65 Eric M. Gutierrez Am I white? My personal inquiry into race begins with a school picture of a six-year-old boy. My dark brown hair, parted to one side, falls impishly over…
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White Latinos Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 2003) 8 pages Ian Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley Who are the leaders in Latino communities? This question does not admit simple answers, for who counts as a leader and what Latino identity entails are both contentious…
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For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2012-03-18 Bruce Smith, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century…
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Spotlight on Jon Veilie: A Man on a Thirteen Year Mission The Modern American Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) Article 8 pages 22-23 Lydia Edwards It all started one month after he passed the bar. Sylvia Davis, a black Seminole, came to Jon for help. She had been to many lawyers already. She told…
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Coloring: An Investigation of Racial Identity Politics within the Black Indian Community Georgia State University 2007 106 pages Charlene Jeanette Graham A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts In the College of Arts and Sciences Historical interconnections between Native Americans and many people of African descent in…
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Anthropology 324L/American Studies 321: The Black Indian Experience in the United States University of Texas, Austin Fall 2011 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin This course explores the entwined histories, cultures and identities of African American and Native American people in the United States. Long neglected in popular and scholarly…
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Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: the Dynamics of Race, Nation, and Identity in a Mexican Moreno Community (Guerrero) American Ethnologist Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2000 pages 898–626 DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.898 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology James Madison University In this article, I explore identity formation in Mexico from the perspective of residents of San Nicolás…
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Caroline Bond Day (1889–1948): A Black Woman Outsider Within Physical Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2012 pages 79–89 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01145.x Anastasia C. Curwood, Visiting Fellow James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia This article examines the significance of Caroline Bond Day’s vindicationist anthropological work on mixed-race families…