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: February 2018
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They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story The Washington Post 2018-02-06 Tara Bahrampour As more Americans take advantage of genetic testing to pinpoint the makeup of their DNA, the technology is coming head to head with the country’s deep-rooted obsession with race and racial myths. This is perhaps no more…
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There’s a big problem with how the census measures race The Washington Post 2018-02-06 Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Graduate Center, City University of New York Activists hold signs during a news conference in front of the Supreme Court in 2015. (Getty Images) Will the 2020 Census be accurate? A number of observers have…
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Science has revealed how arbitrary racial categories are. Perhaps medicine will abandon them, too.
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I can’t speak for anybody else involved, but I took issue with much of the op-ed because our experiences as mixed people are varied in a way that the piece mutes.
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African American populations in the U.S. formed primarily by mating between Africans and Europeans over the last 500 years. Jessica M. Gross, “Tests of fit of historically-informed models of African American Admixture,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (Volume 165), Issue 2, February 2018, 211. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23343.
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Our goal is to gain a better understanding of the admixture process by examining models that take into account (a) assortative mating by ancestry in the African American population, (b) continuous input from both Europeans and Africans, and (c) historically informed variation in the rate of African migration over time.
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Emma Dabiri is Irish, but when the inevitable “Where do you come from?” is asked, the answer rarely satisfies the inquisitor.