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: August 2012
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Law and the Boundaries of Place and Race in Interracial Marriage: Interstate Comity, Racial Identity, and Miscegenation Laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 1860s-1960s Akron Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (1999) pages 557-575 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In North Carolina in 1869, Wesley Hairston, a…
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“Slave genes” myth must die Salon 2012-07-24 Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York Michael Johnson links African-American sprinters to slavery, and revisits a particularly ugly pseudo-science In 1988, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder (in)famously stated that the prowess of African-American football players could be traced to slavery,…
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Effects of interracial crosses on cephalometric measurements American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 69, Issue 4 (April 1986) pages 465–472 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330690405 C. S. Chung Department of Public Health Sciences University of Hawaii, Manoa D. W. Runck Department of Public Health Sciences University of Hawaii, Manoa S. E. Bilben Department of Public Health Sciences University…
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Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Myths of Harmony examines a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…
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Re:Connecting (episode 27) Hapa Happy Hour: A lively discussion and celebration of the mixed heritage experience. 2012-08-19 Hosts: Rena Heinrich Hiwa Bourne Lisa Liang Published, graduated and Mom’d. The three ladies of Hapa Happy Hour return to discuss the micros in their lives in the hopes of connecting with yours. Download the episode (00:31:17, 35.8…
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The cure for racism? More mixed blood Times-Standard Eureka, California 2012-08-23 Tim Martin McKinleyville, California I’ve always thought that most people, regardless of sex, color or faith, have a good heart. That’s why it saddened me to hear that radical hate groups and militias in America are growing in number. The demographic change reportedly has…
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Whispering Grounds whispers thoughts of origins and nature Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph 2011-10-19 Amanda Halm Whispering Grounds, an exhibit of 13 charcoal drawings by artist Annie Lalande, is currently on display at the Bank National Financial Group Gallery, a space dedicated to visual arts in the Palais Montcalm. Incongruous lines and organic shapes sweep across paper to…