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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Don’t let the politics of BLM define mixed-race Americans The New York Daily News 2021-06-19 Charles Byrd Mixed-race Americans (Shutterstock/Shutterstock) Prior to June 12, 1967, anti-miscegenation laws still existed in the southern United States. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned those remaining statutes of segregationist race-consciousness with its landmark “Loving v. Virginia” decision. That case did…
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This year’s once-in-a-decade count, which is scheduled to come to a close at the end of September, is the third one in recent times that has allowed multiracial people to self-report all the racial and ethnic categories with which they identify. At times in the past, such as when the census included “mulatto” as a…
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A Fresh Face On Race The Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut 2001-03-13 Mike Swift, Courant Staff Writer The U.S. Census Bureau’s New Approach And The Latest Population Figures Could Mark ‘The Beginning Of The End Of Racial Classification In America.’ The federal government Monday pegged the number of Americans who are of multiple races at 6.8…
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Not an “Other” Online Newshour 1997-07-16 Paul Solman, Host Increasingly, many Americans find they don’t easily fit into any racial group. But will adding a new “multiracial” category on the census take away the effectiveness of the count? After a background piece by Betty Ann Bowser, Paul Solman leads a debate. PAUL SOLMAN: Well, what…