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: August 9, 2012
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Census to Change Categories on Race The Associated Press 2012-08-09 The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term “Negro,” leaving a choice of “black” or “African-American.” It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites.…
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Black into White in Nineteenth Century Spanish America: Afro-American Assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Volume 5, Number 1 (May 1984) pages 34-49 DOI: 10.1080/01440398408574864 Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mout Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts In his masterful study of…
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Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…