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: September 2013
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Antlers, glass mark exhibit of California sculptor in College Park Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online Gaithersburg, Maryland 2013-09-12 Virginia Terhune, Staff writer Always looking for new materials, Los Angeles sculptor Alison Saar heard that an organization she knew needed to sell a pile of antlers cast off by deer in Montana. So she bought 200…
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I consider racialized medicine to be the inappropriate use of racial categories in medical practice and drug development. It often involves constructing practices around mistaken assumptions of some innate genetic difference among racial groups. For me, the important issue is not whether to use race in biomedicine, but how to use it–and when. There are…
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Given evidence of BiDil’s efficacy, but little evidence that race mattered to its efficacy, the FDA should have made one of two decisions: reject the request for race-specific approval or approve BiDil for all heart failure patients, regardless of race. Instead, the FDA put race at the center of its decision, sparking controversy and paving…
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But blackness also points to a history of mixed racialization that, although always acknowledged among blacks, is rarely understood or seen among other groups. I have argued elsewhere, for instance, that to add the claim of “mixture” to blacks in both American continents would be redundant, because blacks are their primary “mixed” populations to begin…
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An Inconvenient Truth: “Hispanic” is an ethnic origin, not a “race” National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-08-24 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico Kenneth Prewitt’s provocative August 21st New York Times commentary calls us to “fix the census archaic racial categories.” He contends that the current national…
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Never-Ending Story The New York Times 2013-09-27 A. O. Scott, Chief Film Critic ‘Conversation About Race’ Has Not Brought Cultural Consensus The “conversation about race” that public figures periodically claim to desire, the one that is always either about to happen or is being prevented from happening, has been going on, at full volume, at…
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Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race—in Theory Chapter in: Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age Rowman & Littlefield 288 pages August 1997 Size: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8476-8447-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-20172-6 pages 51-71 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute for the…
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The Era of Black Indian Transcendance Refixico 2013-09-29 Phil Wilkes Fixico, Seminole Maroon Descendant, California Seminole Mico (Nation of One) and Heniha for the Wildcat/John Horse Band of the Seminoles of Texas and Old Mexico I was a 52 yr. old African-American, when I discovered that I was really an African-Native American. This epiphany took…
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What was race anyway? That’s the big question Miss Anne’s actions raised. If race was simply a myth or fiction, could one reimagine racial identity as something based on affiliation rather than blood? Some of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance asked much the same thing. In Nella Larsen’s “Passing” and James Weldon Johnson’s “Autobiography…