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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Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness University of North Carolina Press April 2009 408 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-3268-4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-5939-1 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Assistant Professor of History Kent State University In 1925 Leonard [Kip] Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy…
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Dating Practices, Racial Identity, and Psychotherapeutic Needs of Biracial Women Women & Therapy Volume 27, Issue 1 & 2 January 2004 pages 103 – 117 DOI: 10.1300/J015v27n01_07 Ivory Roberts-Clarke University of Rhode Island Angie C. Roberts University of Georgia Patricia Morokoff, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology University of Rhode Island Studies…
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…Marriage between blacks, whites and Indians was legal in Virginia for most of the 17th century. Genealogist Paul Heinegg found that 99% of all mixed children in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the Carolinas before 1810 came from intermarriages of free blacks with whites. Cases of white masters having children by black slaves were virtually non-existence,…
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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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Moving Beyond the Black-White Color Line? Immigration, Diversity, and Multiracial Identification in the United States Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, CA 2004-08-14 Jennifer Lee This paper explores theory and evidence about immigration, race/ethnicity, intermarriage, and multiracial identification, and assesses…
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How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s “Black, Jewish, and Interracial.”
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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…