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 21, 2012
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The multiracial idea has at least two versions. One is that multiracial people are of mixed blood or mixed genetic material. The other is that multiracial people are those with parents of different recognizable races. On examination, both of these positions present problems. The first is most blatantly tied to the racist science of the…
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Pink and Blue in Black and White: Why Binary, Prescriptive Approaches to Human Categorization Still Won’t Yield the Desired Result IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Honors Scholars Program 2010 23 pages Karlyn Meyer INTRODUCTION: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND MISCEGENATION A Texas court asked “can a physician change the gender of a person with a scalpel, drugs…