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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Day: March 4, 2012
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When Anita Florence Hemmings applied to Vassar in 1893, there was nothing in her records to indicate that she would be any different from the 103 other girls who were entering the class of 1897. But by August 1897, the world as well as the college had discovered her secret: Anita Hemmings was Vassar’s first…
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AIS 350 : Black-Indians in the Americas San Francisco State University Fall 2011 In this course students will be introduced to some of the major sociological and historical factors that have given rise to multiracial cultural identities in American Indian communities throughout the Americas and the Caribbean with a specific focus on Black-Indians within American…
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Variations in Multiracial Identity Integration California State University, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Patricia Y. Singim The purpose of this study was to explore how multiracial people integrate their racial identities and if this integration was related to well-being. Furthermore, differences based on type of mix (half White vs. mixed with groups of color), positive interactions with…
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Population structure and admixture in Cerro Largo, Uruguay, based on blood markers and mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms American Journal of Human Biology Volume 18, Issue 4 (July/August 2006) pages 513–524 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20520 Mónica Sans Departamento de Antropología Biológica, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Universidad de la República D. Andrew Merriwether Department of Anthropology…
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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…