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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Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967 Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections Columbia Center for Oral History Columbia University, New York, New York Digitized 2010 (Originally recorded in 1967) DOI: 10.7916/d8-cpb1-1692 Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) interviewed by William R. Keylor (1944-). Listen to the interview here.
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It started with “Mein Kampf.” James Q. Whitman, a specialist in comparative law at Yale University, was researching a legal-history question when he pulled Adolf Hitler’s mid-1920s manifesto from the shelf. What jumped out at Whitman was the admiration that Hitler expressed for the United States, a nation that the future Führer lauded as “the…
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Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In “Hitler’s American Model,” James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece…
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On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present…
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The man of Germanic race on the continent of America having kept himself pure and unmixed, has risen to be its master; and he will remain master as long as he does not fall into the shame of mixing the blood.