Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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: Daniel Sharfstein
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On Becoming Black, Becoming White and Being Human: Rachel Dolezal and the Fluidity of Race Truthdig 2015-06-18 Channing G. Joseph Library of Congress For decades, no one knew my cousin Ernest Torregano was black. At least, no one who mattered in his new life. Not the clients or associates of the prominent bankruptcy law firm…
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Rachel Dolezal’s ‘Passing’ Isn’t So Unusual The New York Times Magazine 2015-06-15 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesee Daniel J. Sharfstein is the author of “The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America.” Why do we care so much about Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane, Wash., chapter…
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The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed 2014-12-14 Robert Fikes Jr., Reference Librarian San Diego State University, San Diego, California Three Harlem Women, ca. 1925 In the article below, independent scholar Robert Fikes Jr., explores a centuries-old process in the United States where African Americans with no…
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The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America – Daniel J. Sharfstein Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-06-26, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-06-27, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Join author, Daniel J. Sharfstein for a discussion of his book and…
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Frizzly Studies: Negotiating the Invisible Lines of Race Common Knowledge Volume 19, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 518-529 DOI: 10.1215/0961754X-2281810 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Beginning with the assumption that race is a conceptual blur, this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” argues that race conflates what is plain to…
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In new book, two Kentucky families discover surprising racial histories Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky 2011-05-15 Linda B. Blackford Freda Spencer Goble of Paintsville knew that she hailed from a proud and hardworking clan that carved a life out of the hills and hollows of frontier Johnson County. What she didn’t know was that one of…
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“Race has never been about biology and blood. Plenty of white people have African blood. I’m looking at this history of migration across the color line and what do categories of black and white mean? These categories have been proxies for hierarchies and discrimination… for having a full set of rights as citizens.” —Daniel J.…
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In 1819 a Scotsman named James Flint crossed the Atlantic Ocean, made his way from New York to Pittsburgh, sailed down the Ohio, and settled for eighteen months in Jeffersonville, Indiana, just opposite Louisville, Kentucky. His letters home described everything from native trees and shrubs to the “taciturnity” of American speech, “adapted to business more…