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: Camille Gear Rich
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From ‘blood quantum’ to multiracial bill of rights, Dolezal saga ignites talk of identity The Seattle Times 2015-06-17 Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times staff reporter The endless fascination with the Rachel Dolezal story reveals our hunger to talk about racial identity in all its complexity. When Amanda Erekson was in her early 20s, a friend introduced…
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Elective Race: Recognizing Race Discrimination in the Era of Racial Self-Identification Georgetown Law Journal Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Volume 102, Issue 5 (2014) pages 1501-1572 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California, Gould School of Law This Article posits that we are in a key moment of discursive and ideological transition,…
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Racial Commodification in the Era of Elective Race: Affirmative Action and the Lesson of Elizabeth Warren University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 92 31 pages 2012-08-20 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law Gould School of Law University of Southern California This Essay uses the current controversy over the racial…
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’Marginal Whiteness California Law Review Volume 98, Number 5 (October 2010) pages 1497-1594 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California How are whites injured by minority-targeted racism? Prior to filing her Title VII interracial solidarity claim, Betty Clayton thought she knew. For years, Clayton, a white cafeteria worker employed by the…