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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Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs Indian Voices July/August 2011 Rose Davis, Publisher Indian Voices At last a true Separate But Equal—For the Good of the People The Dawes Rolls (a census, used by the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs] to determine identity of Tribal members and citizens) came into existence in…
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Does Gates DNA Data Make Black Indians an Urban Legend? Or Does Eating Out of the Same Pot Still Matter? Indian Voices July/August 2011 page 7 Phil Wilkes Fixico I am Phil Wilkes Fixico a Seminole Maroon Descendant who was featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s book and exhibit entitled “IndiVisible” African-Native American Lives. My personal…
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Blacks and Native Americans have deep ties Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-11-18 Manny Otiko, Our Weekly Contributor November is Native Heritage month There is an old joke in the Black community about women attributing long hair to having “Indian blood” in their family. But like all jokes, there is an…
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Phil Wilkes Fixico — a True Native Son L. A. Watts Times 2010-03-11 Darlene Donloe, Contributing Writer Phil Wilkes Fixico’s life is more dramatic than virtually any soap opera. It took him about 52 years to find out who he was after growing up in what he calls a “web of lies.” His intriguing story…
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This is a story of two hidden identities.