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: April 2013
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Race has become a prominent focus for human biotechnology. Despite often good intentions, genetic technologies are being applied in a manner that may provide new justification for thinking about racial difference and racial disparities in biological terms—as if social categories of race reflect natural or inherent group differences.
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White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne November 2003 328 pages Marguerita Stephens Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History The thesis explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’, and…
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Mixed bloods of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia Washington Academy of Sciences Volume 36, Number 1 (1946-01-15) pages 1-13 Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library William Harlen Gilbert, Jr. Library of Congress We are accustomed to think of West Virginia as a racially homogeneous State populated by Old Americans of English, Scotch, and Scotch-Irish descent with…
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Half-castes between the Wars: Colonial Categories in New Zealand and Samoa New Zealand Journal of History Volume 34, Number 1 (2000) pages 98-116 Tocolcsulusulu D. Salesa Oriel College, University of Oxford BY THE 1930s ‘half-castes‘ seemed a near-universal product of colonialism. They were a natural outcome of the human activity of procreation, and not a…
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I hope it is clear that opposing whiteness is not the same as opposing white people. White supremacy is an equal opportunity employer; nonwhite people can become active agents of white supremacy as well as passive participants in its hierarchies and rewards. One way of becoming an insider is by participating in the exclusion of…
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Brown Babies Germany’s Forgotten Children – Henriette Cain Research at the National Archives & Beyond BlogTalk Radio 2013-01-17 Bernice Bennett, Host Are you searching for your family? Are you German, Brown and want to learn more about your American or German heritage? Join Henriette Cain Genealogist, Search Consultant and Secretary of the Black German Cultural…