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: California Law Review
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While advocates in the multiracial movement never explicitly indicate distaste for the minority that constitutes part of a mixed race individual, the insistence on the development of a new racial designation inadvertently associates this minority with inferiority. African-American studies professor Jared Sexton argues that the implicit rejection of the black race in multiracial discourse is…
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The most unique disadvantage of formal identities, relative to ascriptive and elective ones, is that they are confounded by dynamic identities: identities that change over time or depend on context. Formalities leave documentary traces that “inhibit forgetting.” The idea that a past formality might estop an individual from claiming a different identity is based on…
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Identity and Form California Law Review Volume 103, Number 4 (August 2015) pages 747-838 Jessica A. Clarke, Associate Professor of Law University of Minnesota Recent controversies over identity claims have prompted questions about who should qualify for affirmative action, who counts as family, who is a man or a woman, and who is entitled to…
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To date, the multiracial movement has helped make great strides for multiracial individuals striving to define their own racial identity and made valuable contributions to a broader conversation about how we might reconceive of race and its role in society. It has also presented a danger—in the hands of those who would use it for…
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The number of multiracial individuals in America, many of whom define their racial identity in different ways, has grown dramatically in recent years and continues to increase. From this demographic shift a movement seeking unique racial status for multiracial individuals has emerged. The multiracial movement is distinguishable from other race-based movements in that it is…
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Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law California Law Review Volume 88, Issue 6 (2000) pages 1923-2015 Angela P. Harris, Professor of Law University of California, Davis In this Essay, Professor Harris suggests that “race law” consists not only of antidiscrimination law, but law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial…
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Administering Identity: The Determination of Race in Race-Conscious Law California Law Review Volume 82, Issue 5 (1994) pages 1231-1285 Christopher A. Ford Modern American anti-discrimination law seeks to remedy the effects of racial and ethnic prejudice by ensuring equality in areas such as political access and employment opportunity. In this effort, the concept of race…
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“Teachable Moments”: The Use of Child-Centered Arguments in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate California Law Review Volume 98, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 121-158 Ruth Butterfield Isaacson, Associate Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick LLP, San Francisco Child-centered arguments have played a central role in debates over expanding marriage rights throughout history. Opponents of interracial marriage…