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: forensic anthropology
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Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States American Journal of Biological Anthropology Volume 175, Issue 2, June 2021 (Special Issue: Race reconciled II: Interpreting and communicating biological variation and race in 2021) pages 422-436 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24212 Elizabeth A. DiGangi, Associate Professor of Anthropology Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton,…
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A growing number of forensic researchers are questioning how the field interprets the geographic ancestry of human remains.
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Study: Let’s Replace ‘Ancestry’ in Forensics With Something More Accurate North Carolina State University News Raleigh, North Carolina 2021-07-14 Matt Shipman, Research Communications Lead A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both…
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Based on our findings we propose replacing the assumption of continental ancestry with a population structure approach that combines microevolutionary and cultural factors with historical events in the examination of population affinity.