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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How Europeans evolved white skin Science 2015-04-02 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2435 Ann Gibbons, Contributing Correspondent ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most…
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Mexico boasts a staggering genetic diversity, study shows Los Angeles Times 2014-06-12 Geoffrey Mohan SHARELINES ▼ DNA offers a nuanced answer to what it means to be Mexican ▼ Ancient genetic signal survived conquest in Mexico ▼ Latino and Hispanic labels don’t do justice to Mexico’s genome Writers, artists and historians have long pondered what…