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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Tag: Tanya Kateri Hernández
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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…
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The Shifting Race-Consciousness Matrix and the Multiracial Category Movement: A Critical Reply to Professor Hernandez Boston College Third World Law Journal Volume 20, Issue 2 (May 2000) pages 231-289 Reginald Leamon Robinson, Professor of Law Howard University In this article, the author posits that race as an idea begins with consciousness that reinforces that race…
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The White supremacist underpinnings of the racial mixture [in Brazil] as racial utopia concept are made even more evident when one considers the intersectional gender and race specificity regarding the discourse of racial mixture. White elite women are completely precluded from the idealization of racial mixture. Their racial purity and class status are not implicated…
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The Shifting Race-Consciousness Matrix and the Multiracial Category Movement: A Critical Reply to Professor Hernandez Boston College Third World Law Journal Volume 20, Number 2 (Spring 2000) pages 231-290 Reginald L. Robinson, Professor of Law Howard University In this article, the author posits that race as an idea begins with consciousness that reinforces that race…
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Multiracial Matrix: The Role of Race Ideology in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws, a United States – Latin America Comparison Cornell Law Review Volume 87, Number 5 (July 2002) Cornell University Law School Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University This Article examines the role of race ideology in the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. Professor…