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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Call for Papers – ‘Skin Tone, “Colourism” and “Passing”’ University of Leeds School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 2013-09-11 Peter Edwards The Race in the Americas (RITA) group, in partnership with the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), seeks abstract submissions on the theme of…
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Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner Department of History University of Texas at Austin 2013-09-18 Ann Twinam, Professor of History University of Texas, Austin The castas, or mixed race populations, suffered numerous forms of discrimination in colonial Latin America, but in…
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Throughout the twentieth century, the post-revolutionary Mexican State had used mestizaje as a symbol of national unity and social integration. By the end of the millennium, however, Mexico had gone from a PRI-dominated, economically protectionist nation to a more democratic, economically globalizing one.
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Overseas adoptions rise — for black American children Cable News Network (CNN) 2013-09-17 Sophie Brown Editor’s note: In this series, CNN investigates international adoption, hearing from families, children and key experts on its decline, and whether the trend could — or should — be reversed. (CNN) — Elisa van Meurs grew up with a Polish…
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The Two or More Races Population: 2010 United States Census Bureau 2010 Census Briefs (C2010BR-13) September 2012 24 pages Nicholas A. Jones, Chief, Racial Statistics Branch Population Division United States Census Bureau Jungmiwha J. Bullock United States Census Bureau INTRODUCTION Data from the 2010 Census and Census 2000 present information on the population reporting more…
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Mixed Race Show ‘n’ Tell Columbia College 618 Building, Multipurpose Studio 618 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL, Chicago Tuesday, 2013-10-01, 12:00-14:00 (Local Time) Are you multiracial? Mixed race? Biracial? Adopted across cultures? Dating someone of another culture? Ever been asked “What are you?” Bring a special object to the Mixed Race Show N Tell, sponsored by…