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: May 2013
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Political considerations forced [John Leslie] Powell and [Walter Ashby] Plecker to amend their iron-clad, white-supremacy law [The Racial Integrity Act of 1924] that defined as white only a person with no trace of non-white blood. Some of the leading families of Virginia, who took pride in claiming descent from John Rolfe and Pocahontas, took umbrage…
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The longstanding attempt to legislate Indigenous-Asian relations out of existence continues to cast its shadow today. Cathy Freeman is identified as Australia’s most famous Indigenous sportswoman, but she is also of Chinese descent. In the late 19th century, her great-great grandfather moved from China to northern Queensland, where he worked on sugarcane farms. In 2001…
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The longstanding attempt to legislate Indigenous-Asian relations out of existence continues to cast its shadow today. Cathy Freeman is identified as Australia’s most famous Indigenous sportswoman, but she is also of Chinese descent.
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Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, “The United States of the United Races” reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality…
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Much of South America and Mexico is today inhabited by a mongrel race white-black-red mixture, one of the most undesirable racial intermixtures known, as I can testify from my own observation of similar groups in Virginia. W.A. Plecker, “The New Family and Race Improvement,” Virginia Department of Health: Virginia Health Bulletin, (Volume 17, Extra Number…
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Principled Expediency: Eugenics, Naim v. Naim, and the Supreme Court The American Journal of Legal History Volume 42, Number 2 (April, 1998) pages 119-159 Gregory Michael Dorr, Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Amherst College In March 1956, the Supreme Court refused to hear Naim v. Naim, a suit contesting the constitutionality…
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Alien Citizen: Review www.ReviewPlays.com ALIEN CITIZEN Asylum Lab 2013-05-13 Jose Ruiz Elizabeth Liang steps on the solo stage to tell the world what it’s like to be a TCK (Third Culture Kid). These are people who, as children, traveled the globe intermittently because their parents were sent to diplomatic, business or military assignments and the…
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‘War Baby’ is something to see, if you can let go The Chicago Tribune 2013-05-08 Lori Waxman, Instructor of Art History, Theory and Criticism School of the Art Institute of Chicago It was the Hello Kitty tepee that did it for me. Some exhibitions can be so challenging that it takes a particularly unexpected artwork…
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HIST 574–Modern U.S. History: Miscegenation, Mixed Race, and Interracial Relationships Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Summer 2013 Ulli Ryder, Lecturer of History and Africana Studies This class will explore the conditions for and consequences of crossing racial boundaries in the United States. It will take a multidisciplinary approach, utilizing historical scholarship, literature, legal scholarship, and communication…