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: April 2, 2012
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In 1932, under the supervision of Harvard physical anthropologist Earnest Hooton, [Caroline Bond] Day published her Radcliffe master’s thesis, A Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States. It showed that the mixture of African Americans and Whites simply yielded children with some characteristics of each race, who were entirely normal. In fact, Day…
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There are no three primary races, no three major groups. The idea of three primary races stems from nineteenth-century typology; it is totally misleading to put the black-skinned people of the world together-to put the Australian in the same grouping with the inhabitants of Africa. And there are certainly at least three independent origins of…
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In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race The New York Times 2012-04-01 Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy Hunter College, City University of New York In recent weeks, the state of Arizona has intensified its attack in its schools on an entire branch of study — critical race theory. Books and literature that, in the state’s…
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The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods Communication Theory Volume 22, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 92–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01399.x LeiLani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communication University of Washington, Seattle This article advocates for the interdisciplinary use of critical race theory and critical rhetorical theory in communication to analyze racialized language and…
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The Birth of the Mestizo in New Spain The Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 19, Number 2 (May, 1939) pages 161-184 C. E. Marshall No colonizing nation of modern times has had, perhaps, a more interesting and significant history than Spain in the new world. Protestant commercial England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries built…
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The Racial Distribution of Nephritis and Hypertension in Panama The American Journal of Pathology Volume 21, Number 6 (November 1945) pages 1031-1046 Carl E. Taylor In Panama a large scale natural experiment on the pathogenesis of human hypertension awaits scientific interpretation. The studies of Kean and of Marvin and Smith have demonstrated the presence of fairly…