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: Affirmative Action
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Court declares one must “look like an African descendant in the eyes of the average man” to qualify for affirmative action, rejecting another case of a white student “passing” for black
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State and federal programs aim to ensure minority-owned businesses can compete for government contracts after generations of institutional discrimination. A Lynnwood man long identified as white is using DNA ethnicity estimates to claim minority status.
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Brazil has the highest proportion of so-called “mixed race” people in the world. Yet only 13% of people aged 18 to 24 in that category are enrolled at university. Back in 2012, the government decided to introduce quotas for universities. But recently, the system appears to have stalled.
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The experience of a young lawyer raises difficult questions about race, belonging, and the bureaucracy of affirmative action in a country lauded for its egalitarian history.
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As the proudly mixed-race country grapples with its legacy of slavery, affirmative-action race tribunals are measuring skull shape and nose width to determine who counts as disadvantaged.
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Discourses of Citizenship in American and Brazilian Affirmative Action Court Decisions American Journal of Comparative Law Volume 64, Number 2, (Summer 2016) pages 455-504 DOI: 10.5131/AJCL.2016.0015 Adilson José Moreira Harvard University; Mackenzie Presbyterian University American and Brazilian courts are traveling quite different paths regarding the question of racial justice. Race neutrality has become an influential…
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For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2016-09-29 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent When the test scores came out, Lucas Siqueira, 27, was really excited. His high mark on the Foreign Service exam earned him a coveted position at Brazil’s highly competitive Ministry…