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: Elizabeth Warren
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I see similarities between Elizabeth Warren’s situation and that of many black people.
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DNA, Race, and Native Rights
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Our genetic code cannot be treated as a matter of simple fractions.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rejected a call this week by a Massachusetts newspaper to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage, saying it is a cherished piece of family lore and noting that she has never used it to get ahead.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions about her heritage on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.
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The answer is that [Elizabeth] Warren, like millions of other Americans, is mixed-race, and percentages shouldn’t matter when we consider such ancestry. Martha S. Jones, “Why calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ is a slur against all mixed-race Americans,” The Washington Post, November 29, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/11/29/why-calling-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas-is-a-slur-against-all-mixed-race-americans.
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It’s part of the long history of erasing people of mixed heritage.
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Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism The New York Times 2016-09-17 Philip Galanes Senator Elizabeth Warren, left, and the actress Tracee Ellis Ross having dinner at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times Tracee Ellis Ross may be working 14 hours a day…
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Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The question posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native American” at various…
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Racial Commodification in the Era of Elective Race: Affirmative Action and the Lesson of Elizabeth Warren University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series Working Paper 92 31 pages 2012-08-20 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law Gould School of Law University of Southern California This Essay uses the current controversy over the racial…