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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Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press 2006 192 pages ISBN (paperback): 9780881460742 ISBN (hardback): 9780881460131 Tim Hashaw Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name “children of perdition” to…
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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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Status Maximization or Identity Theory?: A Theorectical Approach to Understanding the Racial Identification of Multiracial Adolescents Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 Matthew Oware, Associate Professor of Sociology DePauw University Previous research has found that there are multiple factors that influence the…
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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 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…
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The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France Law and History Review Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 2009 University of Illinois Jennifer Heuer, Associate Professor Department of History University of Massachusetts at Amherst In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story. Charles…