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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In new book, two Kentucky families discover surprising racial histories Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky 2011-05-15 Linda B. Blackford Freda Spencer Goble of Paintsville knew that she hailed from a proud and hardworking clan that carved a life out of the hills and hollows of frontier Johnson County. What she didn’t know was that one of…
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Parallel Adele Third World Newsreel 2008 Color 16 minutes USA English Adele Pham, Director/Producer Two half Vietnamese documentary filmmakers, both named Adele, weave a shared narrative of mixed Asian (hapa) experiences through interviews with 7 other mixed race subjects. History, memory, and anecdotes on multiracial ethnicity are represented through archival images, super 8 film, verité,…
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First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’ This is Leicestershire Leicester Mercury 2013-03-27 Ben Ravilious I was delighted to learn the city mayor has given the green light to Leicester’s City of Culture bid. However, I already have nagging doubts about the direction this might be taking. It’s the flogging of…
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Census 2011: Leicester ‘most ethnically diverse’ in region BBC News 2012-12-11 Leicester is one of the most diverse cities in the UK and the largest in the East Midlands, the latest census shows. Information from the 2011 survey shows there are 329,000 people living in the city, 24,000 more than in Nottingham, while 250,000 live…
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It has been estimated that the census of 1860 will exhibit a total population in the United States of 81,500,000 souls, of whom 27,000,000 are whites. “To be apportioned on this population,” writes a statistician, “are two hundred and thirty-three representatives. Of this number, it is estimated, the Southern States will have eighty-two, being a…
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Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2011 pages 203–219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x Mieke Schrooten Anthropology Department Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses…
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Amalgamation, North and South Sacramento Daily Union Volume 24, Number 3619 (1862-11-03) page 4, column 2 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Driven from every other position by the force of argument or the force of facts, the advocates of a doomed system flourish before the eyes of the ignorant the bugbear of amalgamation. Amalgamation, they…