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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The Anti-Miscegenation History of the American Southwest, 1837 To 1970: Transforming Racial Ideology into Law Cultural Dynamics Volume 20, Number 3 (November 2008) pages 279-318 DOI: 10.1177/0921374008096312 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin This article proposes that a historical analysis of court cases and state statutes can be used to illustrate…
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Miscegenation and Race: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally [A Tribute] Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 1-5 E-ISSN: 1536-0334, Print ISSN: 0160-9009 Estelle B. Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University The following papers pay tribute to Peggy Pascoe’s [1954-2010] extraordinary book What Comes Naturally:…
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An intensely dramatic true story, “Forsaking All Others” recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted—in defiance of society’s laws and conventions—to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge.
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Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950 Berkeley Asian Law Journal Volume 9, Number 1 (2002) pages 1-40 Gabriel J. Chin University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy Hrishi Karthikeyan New York University School of Law…
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American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 33, Number 44 (2000) pages 795-835 Leti Volpp, Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley This essay interprets the legal history of efforts to prohibit intermarriage between Filipino men and white women in the state of California in the 1920s…