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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The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan University of Chicago Press 2016 264 pages 8 color plates, 49 halftones 6 x 9 Gísli Pálsson, Professor of Anthropology University of Iceland The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of…
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Vikings Possibly Carried Native American to Europe Discovery News 2010-11-17 Medieval texts suggest the Vikings arrived in the New World more than 1,000 years ago. THE GIST DNA analysis reveals that four families in Iceland possess genes typically found in Native Americans or East Asians. Genealogical evidence revealed that these families shared a distant ancestor…