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: November 28, 2012
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“I don’t believe in this miscegenation business. Though all human beings are really one, various social constructs were invented to perpetuate European supremacy.” —Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas Lamont Lilly, “Afro-Latin And The Negro Common: An Interview With Dr. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas,” Racialicious, September 5, 2012. http://www.racialicious.com/2012/09/05/afro-latin-and-the-negro-common-an-interview-with-dr-marco-polo-hernandez-cuevas/.
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Dorothy E. Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race [Vanderbilt University Lecture] Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-30 Watch video of Dorothy E. Roberts—recently named Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania—presenting “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” based on her latest book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create…
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Afro-Latin And The Negro Common: An Interview With Dr. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas Racialicious 2012-09-05 Lamont Lilly Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas is the Interim Chair of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at North Carolina Central University, where his interests lie in Transatlantic and Diaspora Studies. He is the author of five books, including The Africanization of…
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Non-profit Tuesday: Why Give? What you might not expect in return Laura Kina 2012-11-27 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Giving is hard. I’m not talking about birthday or Christmas gifts here. There is a social contract that you must give back to those who you…
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Diving into the Gene Pool TIME Magazine 2006-08-20 Carolina A. Miranda If they held a convention for racial purity, I would never make the guest list. Like most other Latin American families, mine is a multiethnic stew that has left me with the generic black-eyed and olive-skinned look typical of large swaths of the world’s…
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The use of defamation law to reinforce privately held class-based animus traces back at least to the eighteenth century. In 1791, South Carolina’s court of last resort held that falsely describing an individual as a mulatto was actionable “because, if true, the [plaintiff] would be deprived of all civil rights.” False imputations that white persons…