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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Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Lines in the Borderlands: Mixed Peoples in Transitional North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 108 Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Cornet Room (Sheraton New Orleans) Chair: Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles Papers: “‘I Do Not Know…
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The Color of Change: Voting Rights in the 21st Century and the California Voting Rights Act Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 15 (2012) pages 184-231 Joanna E. Cuevas Ingram University of California, Davis Table of Contents INTRODUCTION I. THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 AND THE CALIFORNIA VOTING RIGHTS ACT II. U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS…
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The L.A. Scene: Teaching Race and Popular Music in the 1950s Organization of American Historians Magazine of History Volume 26, Issue 4 pages 17-20 DOI: 10.1093/oahmag/oas030 Luis Alvarez, Associate Professor of History University of California, San Diego In 1956, Little Julian Herrera had one of the biggest rhythm and blues hits of the year in…
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Punjabi Sikh-Mexican American community fading into history The Washington Post 2012-08-13 Benjamin Gottlieb Amelia Singh Netervala points to her mother’s chicken curry enchiladas as the best metaphor for her childhood. Born to a Punjabi Sikh father and Mexican mother, her family was full of cultural contradictions: She went to church on Sundays with her mother…
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Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’ Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2012-04-28 Gretchen Wenner, Staff Reporter SQUAW VALLEY — Juror No. 8 from the Rodney King beating trial has always heard the 12-member panel described as either all white or as having no blacks. Now, he wants the public to know that’s not…
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Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Rutgers University Press June 2012 256 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780813552835, ISBN: 0813552834 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780813552842, ISBN: 0813552842 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical…
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“Teachable Moments”: The Use of Child-Centered Arguments in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate California Law Review Volume 98, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 121-158 Ruth Butterfield Isaacson, Associate Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick LLP, San Francisco Child-centered arguments have played a central role in debates over expanding marriage rights throughout history. Opponents of interracial marriage…
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Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions American Anthropological Association 2012-02-07 Posted by Josyln O. The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA’s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting, to be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco. The AAA meeting theme this year is “Borders,” so…