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: April 2014
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Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering The American Historical Review Volume 115, Issue 5 (December 2010) pages 1364-1394 DOI: 10.1086/ahr.115.5.1364 William Max Nelson, Assistant Professor of History University of Toronto A minor nobleman from Alsace, traveling in French colonial Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) on the eve of the French and Haitian revolutions, expressed surprise that…
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Intermarried-Whites in the Cherokee Nation Between the Years 1865 and 1887 Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, Number 3 (September, 1928) pages 299-326 A. H. Murchison Muskogee, Oklahoma The Cherokee Indians in all their various treaties with the United States, numbering about twenty, obtained provisions whereby the United States was to exclude intruding white persons from their…
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Louisiana Ordered to Provide Voucher Data to U.S. Education Week 2014-4-09 Mark Walsh, Contributing Writer A federal judge has ordered Louisiana to provide annual data to the federal government on the students participating in the state’s private school voucher program. The April 7 order by U.S. District Judge Ivan R. Lemelle of New Orleans appears…
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Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of “Race” in Twentieth-Century America The Journal of American History Volume 83, Number 1 (June, 1996) pages 44-69 Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010), Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon On March 21, 1921, Joe Kirby took his wife, Mayellen, to court. The Kirbys had been married for…
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Race, Descent, and Tribal Citizenship California Law Review Circuit Volume 4 (April 2013) pages 23-47 Bethany R. Berger, Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law University of Connecticut What is the relationship between descent-based tribal citizenship requirements and race or racism? This essay argues that tribal citizenship laws that require Indian or tribal…
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Regulating White Desire Wisconsin Law Review Volume 2007, Number 2 (2007) pages 463-488 Reginald Oh, Professor of Law Cleveland Marshall College of Law Cleveland State University Introduction II. Loving v. Virginia III. The Greatest Threat to the Purity of the White Race: Social Equality Through Interracial Marriage IV. Miscegenation and Segregation Laws and the Legal Enforcement…
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We could tie ourselves in knots trying to untangle the many complexities of racial identity, so let me simply address this with pure science. There is no “race gene,” it’s a biological myth. That doesn’t mean race isn’t real, it means it is a lived experience, rather than something we are born into. As Larry…
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An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, No. 2 (June, 1928) Interesting Ante-bellum Laws of the Cherokees, Now Oklahoma History page 179 James W. Duncan Tahlequah, Oklahoma Be it enacted by the National Council, that intermarriage shall not be lawful between a free male or female citizen with any…