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: Christian B. Sundquist
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The claims of modern genetics notwithstanding, race remains a biologically meaningless concept of human categorization. Race simply has no traceable genetic essence, and the proliferation of racial DNA testing represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of race rather than the neutral application of scientific principles. Christian B. Sundquist, “The Meaning of Race in the…
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Signifying on Passing: (Post) Post-Racialism, (Post) Post-Modernism, and (Post) Post-Marxism Columbia Journal of Race and Law Volume 1, Issue 3 (July 2012) pages 482-489 Christian B. Sundquist, Associate Professor of Law Albany Law School The social and legal relevance of racial passing appears to be fading as we ostensibly enter a color-blind, post-race era. During…
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What is “race”? Does the concept of race represent a natural and inevitable understanding of human difference? Does race have any biological meaning, or is it merely an artificial construct employed by society and political bodies? If race is the former, then how can modern society avoid a rebirth of racial eugenics? And yet if…
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Review of Fatal Invention, by Professor Dorothy Roberts Race and the Law: A Critical Examination of Science, Law and the Construction of Race 2011-12-07 Christian B. Sundquist, Associate Professor of Law Albany Law School Professor Dorothy Roberts has recently released a vitally important book on issues of race and genetics, entitled Fatal Invention: How Science,…