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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A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era Demography Published Online: 2013-04-20 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0210-8 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Racial distinctions in the United States have long been characterized as uniquely rigid…
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Remembering Crispus Attucks and the forgotten black soldiers of the American Revolution The Grio 2013-05-27 Ronda Racha Penrice Crispus Attucks. (Library of Congress) Memorial Day may be more about barbecues and blowout sales than honoring our deceased veterans these days, but there are many reasons for African-Americans in particular to take pause. Starting with the…
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The Forgotten Amerasians The New York Times 2013-05-27 Christopher M. Lapinig Yale University NEW HAVEN — THE Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill last week that would gradually make citizenship possible for as many as 11 million undocumented immigrants. The bill is widely described as sweeping in scope. In fact, it is not…
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Casta Paintings: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by Ilona Katzew; Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Magali M. Carrera The Art Bulletin Volume 88, Number 1 (March, 2006) pages 185-189 Thomas B.F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art Harvard University…
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US Census: Rationalizing Race in US History Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society, Othmer Library Brooklyn, New York 2013-04-18, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) View the full video of the event here. What boxes do you mark on the U.S. Census to describe your heritage? Prior to the year 2000, multiracial people could only check…
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Who Was the 1st Black Duke? The Root 2013-05-13 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University Porträt des Alessandro de Medici by Pontormo, 1534-1535 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Meet the scion of a legendary Italian dynasty. Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of…
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Afrofuturism’s Others Tate Modern Starr Auditorium Bankside London SE1 9TG Saturday, 2013-06-15, 14:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Deluxe 2004–5 (detail) Mixed media, 60 frames, 38.9 x 32 cm each Tate Photography © Tate Ellen Gallagher’s work deconstructs received truths and weaves together propositional narratives, inhabiting spaces where the future collapses into the past, obsolescence…
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“First and foremost, I would be remiss if I didn’t suggest that people go to MixedRaceStudies.org. It is one of the most comprehensive websites about all things mixed-race… This is a website created by Steve Riley. He’s a regular on Mixed Race Radio and throughout the entire academic circle.. or circuit. He has created this…
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“The offspring of the two races is a hybrid—the offspring whose progression, though not limited like that of some of the lower animals to the first generation, is nevertheless so arrested by lunacy, idiocy, blindness, deafness and dumbness, and other the most crushing infirmities ‘that flesh is heir to,’ that it can never become the…