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: Jonathan Marks
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Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.
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This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.
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Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Volume 103, Number 12 (December 1994) pages 32-35 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article…