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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Williams spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents’ marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black.
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This year’s once-in-a-decade count, which is scheduled to come to a close at the end of September, is the third one in recent times that has allowed multiracial people to self-report all the racial and ethnic categories with which they identify. At times in the past, such as when the census included “mulatto” as a…
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“Say I’m Dead” is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through five generations of interracial relationships.
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In a matter of days, Rev. Teresa Hord Owens will become the general minister and president of the Disciples of Christ. The appointment, pending an election on July 9 during the Disciples of Christ General Assembly in Indianapolis, will make Owens the first Black woman to lead a mainline Protestant denomination in North America.
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Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society HiLite: Your Source For CHS News Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana 2016-12-12 Allison Li, Calendar/Beats Editor, Feature Reporter Junior Kiki Koniaris is Korean, Pennsylvanian Dutch and Grecian. Despite being of mixed race, Koniaris said she believes race should not define…
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South Bend high school student behind race-based signs speaks out WNDU TV 16 South Bend, Indiana 2016-02-12 A local high school student says he’s in trouble after he and two other students posted some controversial signs at Riley High School. The signs stated “COLORED ONLY” and “WHITES ONLY,” and they were placed above water fountains…
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Indiana’s Miscegenation Laws: An Ineffective Racist Agenda Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana May 2013 57 pages Megan M. Harris An Undergraduate Honors Thesis (HONRS 499) Miscegenation laws have played an influential and explanatory role in Indiana’s perception and attitudes about interracial relationships. Indiana had stringent regulations against such unions, which existed for a large portion…
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How Indiana Punishes Miscegenation The New York Times 1879-05-21 Terre Haute, Ind., May 20.—William Nelson, a colored man, was sentenced to-day to pay a fine of $5,000 and be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for one year for marrying a white woman. The prosecution originated in spite, but Nelson was convicted under the law of 1856,…
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In My Skin: Shaping the Multiracial Identity in Indiana Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana April 2012 18 pages Earl L. Harris A CREATIVE PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF ARTS This project takes viewers inside the lives of multiracial individuals in Indiana through a…