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: March 24, 2013
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“The Souls of Mixed Folk” examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical.
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Can the “one-drop rule” tell us anything about racial discrimination? New evidence from the multiple race question on the 2000 Census Labour Economics Volume 16, Issue 4 (August 2009) pages 451-460 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.01.003 Robert W. Fairlie, Professor of Economics University of California, Santa Cruz The inclusion of multiple race information for the first time in…
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Turkish descendants of African slaves begin to discover their identity The National Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2012-09-01 Piotr Zalewski No one knows how many Afro-Turks there are but, in a country that’s beginning to acknowledge its great diversity, they’re beginning to unearth their forgotten history. In 1961, Ertekin Azerturk, a Turkish businessman from Istanbul,…
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Book Review: Race in a Bottle GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 26 Issue 1, March 2013 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University In Race in a Bottle, Jonathan Kahn tracks the contentious history of BiDil, the first drug targeted specifically to African…