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 Carrie Bourassa story is yet another example of a kind of cultural Munchausen Syndrome The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2021-11-09 Drew Hayden Taylor Carrie Bourassa, a University of Saskatchewan professor, told the world her ancestry was Métis, Anishnawbe and Tlingit. But she has been unable to verify her ancestry following reports questioning those…
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23andMe wants to sell you vacations based on your DNA. But what are they really basing that on?
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[Caroline] Tait said genealogical records show that [Carrie] Bourassa’s supposed Indigenous ancestors were of Russian, Polish and Czechoslovakian descent. “There was nowhere in that family tree where there was any Indigenous person,” said [Winona] Wheeler. Tait was so troubled by what she found that, with the support of Wheeler and others, she compiled the information…
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University of Saskatchewan, CIHR place Bourassa on leave over lack of evidence
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Métis author says the published version of her 1973 memoir ‘didn’t tell the complete story’
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“Often race is used as a variable without people really defining it biologically, and that is a very minimum we should expect from a scientific variable that you’ll be able to define it biologically. They just treat these social categories as though they are biological without really doing the legwork to figure out why that…
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A look at the re-emergence of ‘scientific’ attempts to explain perceived racial differences
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Rhonda Fils-Aimé was adopted by a white family as a baby, and her biological father, Philippe, had no idea
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“Historically, in the United States, if you had one drop of black blood, you were defined as black. You had various names for people who looked as white as their master, but they were defined as black. I didn’t grow up identifying as black because of that — for me it was more about pride,…