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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A Further Discussion of the Variability of Family Strains in the Negro-White Population of New York City Journal of the American Statistical Association Volume 20, Issue 151 (1925) pages 380-389 DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1925.10503502 Melville J. Herskovits A paper read at the meeting of Section H., American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Washington , D.C.,…
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Rocky Point’s African American Past: A Forgotten History Remembered through Historical Archaeology at the Betsey Prince Site Long Island History Journal Volume 22, Issue 1 (Winter 2011) 60 paragraphs Allison Manfra McGovern Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center, City University of New York North Country Road in the wilderness of Rocky Point, that was occupied…
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What Are You? Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 2011-09-26, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) All events are held at BHS and are free with museum admission ($6 adults, $4 students/teachers/seniors, free for children under 12) unless otherwise noted. Admission is always free for BHS members. Participate in this discussion at…
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The Racially-Mixed People of the Ramapos: Undoing the Jackson White Legends American Anthropologist Volume 74, Number 5 (October 1972) pages 1276-1285 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.5.02a00190 Daniel Collins North Carolina State University A review of the literature fails to validate the Jackson White legends which traditionally have accounted for the presence of a racially mixed collectivity in the…
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20 years after riots, Crown Heights is now a mixed racial haven New York Daily News 2011-08-14 Simone Weichselbaum, Staff Writer Crown Heights has become a mixed race mecca. The Brooklyn neighborhood infamous for the 1991 riot between blacks and Jews has the second-most residents who identify as being both black and white, the latest…
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Scouting the City for Her Characters The New York Times 2011-08-19 John Leland A Summer afternoon in Chelsea, and Sarah Jones was on a recon mission, searching for… she did not know what, exactly. An accent, for starters. An ethnic wild card. “Hybridity,” she said, using a word she uses often to describe her field…
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Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County The Observer-Dispatch Utica, New York 2011-07-14 Elizabeth Cooper UTICA — Nisa Duong is part Vietnamese, part black, part American Indian and part white. But the 19-year-old Utica resident said her racial and ethnic identity isn’t at the forefront of her mind, and if it comes up,…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Jackson Whites; history and origin of a primitive race living in the Ramapo Mountains. They are a mixture of three races, the white, the Negro, & the American Indians.