Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

But blackness also points to a history of mixed racialization that, although always acknowledged among blacks, is rarely understood or seen among other groups. I have argued elsewhere, for instance, that to add the claim of “mixture” to blacks in both American continents would be redundant, because blacks are their primary “mixed” populations to begin with. Mixture among blacks, in particular, functions as an organizing aesthetic, as well as a tragic history. On the aesthetic level, it signifies the divide between beauty and ugliness. On the social level, the divide is between being just and unjust, virtuous and vicious; “fair skin” is no accidental, alternative term for “light skin.” And on the historical level, the divide signifies concerns that often are denied.

Lewis R. Gordon, Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). 57.

Intellectual Development of Children from Interracial Matings

Posted in Articles, Health/Medicine/Genetics, United States on 2010-10-21 20:07Z by Steven

Intellectual Development of Children from Interracial Matings

Science (1970-12-18)
Volume 170, Number 3964
pages 1329-1331
DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3964.1329

Lee Willerman
Perinatal Research Branch
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health

Alfred F. Naylor
Perinatal Research Branch
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health

Ntinos C. Myrianthopoulos
Perinatal Research Branch
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health

Interracial offspring of white mothers obtained significantly higher IQ scores at 4 years of age than interracial offspring of Negro mothers, suggesting that environmental factors play an important role in the lower intellectual performance of Negro children.

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