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: December 27, 2012
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Choice—especially around identity—is a fascinating subject in and of itself. How we choose to identify is intensely personal for many, and perhaps particularly perplexing for some Mixed-race identified people, as it inherently calls into question our notions of “race”. Having said that, I can only speak for myself, and I have chosen to identify as…
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Race, ideas, and ideals: A comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F.K. Günther History of European Ideas Volume 32, Issue 3, 2006 pages 313-332 DOI: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.05.001 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel This article compares two radically opposed views concerning “race” in the first half of…
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Book Review: Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants 2012-12-26 Nancy Matsumoto Growing up in predominantly white Marin County, mixed-race yonsei Akemi Johnson hates her name and just wants to blend in. In college, though, her attitude changes. She studies race and ethnicity and travels to…
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Alden J. Blethen vs. Jack Johnson The Seattle Republican Seattle, Washington Volume XV, Number 43 1909-03-19 page 1, column 3 Source: United States Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers How perfectly natural for some folk to strain at a gnat and yet gulp down a camel; to see a pigeon on a barn,…
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Inter-Marriage of Whites and Negroes Less Common than Formerly—The Plan of Despotism a Failure—Progress of the Colored Race.