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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Tag: Kevin N. Maillard
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The Pocahontas Exception: The Exemption of American Indian Ancestry from Racial Purity Law bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1572 2006-08-18 47 pages Kevin N. Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University “The Pocahontas Exception” confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous “Indian Grandmother.” Laws existed in many states that prohibited marriage between…
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The Color of Testamentary Freedom Southern Methodist University Law Review Volume 62 p. 1783 2009 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Wills that prioritize the interests of nontraditional families over collateral heirs test courts’ dedication to observing the posthumous wishes of testators. Collateral heirs who object to will provisions that redraw the…
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Slaves in the Family: Testamentary Freedom and Interracial Deviance 2008 50 pages Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University This Article addresses the deviance of interracial sexuality acknowledged in testamentary documents. The language of wills calls into question the authority of probate and family law by forcing issues of deviance into the public…