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: Franz Boas
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My work is about the first two generations of Chinese and Japanese Americans who married whites in the U.S. West between 1880 and 1954.
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Professor Franz Boas, who writes the leading article this month, is a member of the Department of Anthropology in Columbia University. The editor of Science reports that the leading scientists of America regard this department of Columbia as the strongest in the country. This gives a peculiar weight to Dr. Boas’ words, which were first…
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Race, ideas, and ideals: A comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F.K. Günther History of European Ideas Volume 32, Issue 3, 2006 pages 313-332 DOI: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.05.001 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel This article compares two radically opposed views concerning “race” in the first half of…
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The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance Ashgate Publishing November 2009 232 pages Includes 5 b&w illustrations Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-6198-6 Rachel Farebrother, Lecturer in American Studies University of Swansea Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility…
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Race-mixing and science in the United States Endeavour Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2003) pages 166-170 DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2003.08.007 Paul Farber, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Oregon State University Scientific racism was widely used as a justification to oppose race-mixing in the United States. Historians have justly criticized this abuse of science, but have overlooked some…