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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States of Denial Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-06-04 When Barack Obama was first elected president in 2008, some pundits declared the United States to have finally reached a triumphal post-racial stage, an era of long-awaited racial harmony after the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Yet, almost a decade…
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Envisioning the United States in the Latin American myth of ‘racial democracy mestizaje’ Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online 2016-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2016.1170953 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Transnational comparison is relevant both to how racial hierarchy is obscured and elucidated. This Essay traces how…
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Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination? Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2015 Speaker Series presents: “Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination?” University of Pittsburgh 2015-12-10 Tanya Hernandez, Professor of Law Fordham University Welcome by: Larry Davis, Dean, Donald M. Henderson Professor, and Director Center for Race and Social…
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Law is still black & white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says University Times: The Faculty & Staff Newspaper Since 1968 University of Pittsburgh 2016-01-07 Marty Levine Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence…
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Accordingly, the demand for statistical recognition of mixed-race persons—and acknowledgement of all aspects of an individual’s racial identity—is occurring within a sociopolitical context that values White ancestry and denigrates non-White ancestry. In such a racial caste system, it is impossible to acknowledge mixed-race persons officially without actually elevating the status of those who can claim…
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Census Race Change For Hispanics Sparks Criticism The Huffington Post 2013-01-09 Tony Castro Some Latino civil rights groups are questioning the U.S. Census consideration of designating Hispanics a race of their own, fearing the loss of national original designations. The change, making “Hispanic” a racial instead of an ethnic category, would eliminate the check-off boxes…