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: October 21, 2012
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The New Virginia Law To Preserve Racial Integrity Virginia Health Bulletin Virginia Department of Health Volume XVI, Extra Number 2 (March 1924) pages 1-4 Source: Pamphlet: Rockbridge County Clerk’s Correspondence, 1912–1943. Local Government Records Collection. The Library of Virginia, (Racial Integrity Act Documents) 12-1245-005 W. A. Plecker, M. D. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond,…
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In 1898, journalist Louis J. Beck offered the reading public what he saw as a valuable case study in “heredity and racial traits and tendencies.” This case study was none other than the infamous “half-breed” criminal George Washington Appo (1856–1930), whose name was virtually a household word for New Yorkers of the time.
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Reaping the Whirlwind The New York Times Opinionator: Exculive Online Commentary From The Times 2012-10-17 Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law Yale University On reading the transcript and listening to the audio of last week’s Supreme Court argument in the University of Texas affirmative action…