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: Indian Country Today
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The author’s new novel looks at the history of a Black family in central Georgia
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50 or 25 percent blood quantum or lineal descent, every tribe has its own criteria for mandatory percentage Indian
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Amy Locklear Hertel to Head American Indian Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Indian Country Today 2012-04-29 Tanya Lee Amy Locklear Hertel, newly-selected director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was admonished by her grandmother to pursue her education. “Grandmother told me to get…
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Mulatto: Less than Human Indian Country Today 2012-01-16 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Race is not simply about the physical description of human variation. Since its origin in Western science in the eighteenth century, race has been used both to classify and rank human beings according to inferior and superior types. Although race as a…
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My Experience on the Indian-Negro Color Line Indian Country Today 2011-12-27 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Growing-up on the Indian-Negro color line (I am the daughter of a European mother and a black and Indian father), I lived with mixed signals and coded information by the dominant culture. It had determined that white European culture…