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: May 3, 2013
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Black and Bengali In These Times 2013-03-02 Fatima Shaik A new book traces the hidden story of a mixed-race community. The federal census taker comes every 10 years and, for most people in the United States, this has little consequence. But not where I lived, in New Orleans, just outside the historic district of Tremé.…
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What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white?
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New Demographic Perspectives on Studying Intermarriage in the United States Contemporary Jewry Published Online: May 2013 pages 1-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12397-013-9103-9 Bruce A. Phillips, Professor of Jewish Communal Service Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles The study of Jewish intermarriage has largely ignored the measurement conventions prevalent in the field of demography such as…