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: Law and History Review
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“The law recognizes racial instinct”: Tucker v. Blease and the Black–White Paradigm in the Jim Crow South Law and History Review Volume 29, Issue 2 (May 2011) pages 471-495 DOI: 10.1017/S0738248011000058 John W. Wertheimer, Jessica Bradshaw, Allyson Cobb, Harper Addison, E. Dudley Colhoun, Samuel Diamant, Andrew Gilbert, Jeffrey Higgs, Nicholas Skipper On January 24, 1913,…
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“Freedom By A Judgment”: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family Law and History Review Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 173-203 DOI: 10.1017/S0738248011000642 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina Forum: Ab Initio: Law in Early America On May 2, 1771, John Hardaway of Dinwiddie County, Virginia posted…
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“Of Portuguese Origin”: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the “Little Races” in Nineteenth-Century America Law and History Review 2007 Volume 25, Number 3 Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History University of Southern California The history of race in the nineteenth-century United States is often told as a…
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The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France Law and History Review Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 2009 University of Illinois Jennifer Heuer, Associate Professor Department of History University of Massachusetts at Amherst In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story. Charles…