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: October 2012
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Race Treason: The Untold Story of America’s Ban on Polygamy Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 19, Number 2 (2010) pages 287-366 Martha M. Ertman, Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor of Law University of Maryland Today’s ban on polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons committed two types of treason. First,…
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French MP Harlem Désir set to become first black man to lead a major European political party The Independent London, England 2012-09-12 John Lichfield The French Euro MP Harlem Désir appears certain next month to become the first black man to lead a major European political party. After weeks of wrangling, Mr Désir, 52, was…
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Cedric Dover Wasafiri Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012) pages 56-57 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2012.662322 Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India as a…
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The L.A. Scene: Teaching Race and Popular Music in the 1950s Organization of American Historians Magazine of History Volume 26, Issue 4 pages 17-20 DOI: 10.1093/oahmag/oas030 Luis Alvarez, Associate Professor of History University of California, San Diego In 1956, Little Julian Herrera had one of the biggest rhythm and blues hits of the year in…
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In one of his posthumously published essays Georges Bataille poses a question that we might borrow to consider the narratological and epistemological quandaries at the heart of Nella Larsen’s telling of racial unbelonging in her 1929 novella, Passing. Bataille writes, “why must there be what I know? Why is it a necessity? . . .…