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: Cherokee Freedmen
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Cherokee Nation Strikes Down Language That Limits Citizenship Rights ‘By Blood’ National Public Radio 2021-02-25 Mary Louise Kelly, Host All Things Considered Rena Logan, a member of a Cherokee Freedmen family, shows her identification card as a member of the Cherokee tribe at her home in Muskogee, Okla., in this photo from October 2011. She…
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Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhood February 2009 44 pages Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center Michigan State University Forthcoming in a 2011 University of Wyoming Law Review issue. American Indian tribes and nations are at a crossroads. One on hand, many tribes like the Cherokee…
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A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen’s Descendents bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1570 2006-08-17 72 pages S. Alan Ray, President Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois The Cherokee Nation today faces the challenge of determining its citizenship criteria in the context of race. The article focuses on the Cherokee Freedmen.…