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: September 9, 2013
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Finding the Silver Lining: Hair, (Mixed) Race, and Identity Politics in Toni and Slade Morrison’s Little Cloud and Lady Wind The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 37, Number 2, April 2013 pages 173-187 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2013.0016 Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Associate Professor of English Florida Atlantic University rainclouds we are nature nature nature natural!!! black people, we…
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By the 1930s and 40s, medical science and genetics, too, were providing empirical evidence that the notion of a biological basis for racial classifications was on increasingly shaky ground. They were finding that the distribution of genetic traits appeared to straddle previously defined racial groups, leading to suspicion that racial categories were problematic. Robert H.…