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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Parental Communication and Its Influence on Biracial Identity Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 93rd Annual Convention, TBA Chicago, IL 2007-11-15 27 pages Carolyn Brooks The Biracial identity development process has long been overlooked in society and in research. Few models exist and those models in existence are mostly descriptive. This…
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Narrating the Racial Self: Symbolic Boundaries and the Reference Group Identification Among Biracial Black Jews Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 45 pages Bruce Haynes, Associate Professor Sociology Depertment University of California at Davis Few studies of bi-racial or multiracial identity have…
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One Drop, No Rule: Identity Options among Multiracial Children in the U.S. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA, 2005-08-12 Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor Chapel Hill Department of Sociology University of North Carolina This paper examines the links between family background characteristics and…
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The Historical Legal Construction of Black Racial Identity of Mixed Black-White Race Individuals: The Role of State Legislatures Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association Manchester Hyatt San Diego, California 2008-03-20 Richard T. Middleton, IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper is an…
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Essentialism and the Perception of Mixed-Race Individuals: Implications for the Sociopolitical Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2009-07-14 Arnold Ho Harvard University James Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies Harvard…
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Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana… Octoroon means a person of fourth-generation black ancestry. Genealogically, it means one-eighth black. Typically an…
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Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana… …Quadroon usually referred to someone of one-quarter black ancestry; that is, with three white grandparents…
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The (Mono-) Racial Contract: Mixed-Race Implications Canadian Political Science Association 79th Annual Conference 2007-05-30 through 2007-06-01 Paper Dated: 2007-05-17 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly a decade ago, Charles Mills brought ‘race’ into mainstream political theory through his theory of the Racial Contract; namely, that all social contracts are underwritten by the…
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The one drop rule & the one hate rule Dædalus, Winter 2005 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California at Berkeley Two portentous practices within the public discussion of ‘race’ in the United States since the late 1960s are rarely analyzed together. One is the method by which we decide…