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: August 2021
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The Multiracial population was measured at 9 million people in 2010 and is now 33.8 million people in 2020, a 276% increase.
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Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 Oxford University Press 2002-12-12 248 pages 9.04 x 6.84 x 0.9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0195157178 DOI: 10.1093/0195157176.001.0001 John Saillant, Professor of English and History Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan In the second half of the eighteenth century, British and American men and women…
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While I am so proud to be a queer Jewish woman of color, it has taken an excruciating amount of work to reach this point.
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One of [Richard] Lewontin’s pathbreaking works was to find out how much genetic diversity exists within species. This was at a time when we did not know how many genes humans had. Lewontin’s inspired guess was 20,000, far smaller than what most biologists thought then and remarkably close to what is known today. Most biologists…
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CAP recognizes Women’s History Month with a profile of aviator and civil rights pioneer Willa Brown.
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Aaron’s Book The Devil’s Tale: Dispatches from the Davin M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 2021-07-27 Blake Hill-Saya Above: Portrait in oils of Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore painted by his daughter Lyda Moore Merrick. Located in the North Carolina Collection, Stanford L. Warren Branch of the Durham County Library,…
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The great scientific crusader who debunked the biological myths about race AlterNet 2021-08-05 Prabir Purkayastha/Globetrotter On July 4, Richard Lewontin, the dialectical biologist, Marxist and activist, died at the age of 92, just three days after the death of his wife of more than 70 years, Mary Jane. He was one of the founders of…