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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Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA The New York Times 2015-02-23 Andrew Pollack The police in Columbia, S.C., released this sketch of a possible suspect based on DNA left at the crime scene. Parabon NanoLabs, which made the image, has begun offering DNA phenotyping services to law enforcement agencies. There were no known…
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Estimating Genetic Ancestry Proportions from Faces PLoS ONE Volume 4, Number 2, e4460 (February 2009) 8 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004460 Yann C. Klimentidis Department of Biostatistics University of Alabama, Birmingham Mark D. Shriver, Associate Professor of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Ethnicity can be a means by which people identify themselves and others. This type of identification…
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Michelle’s Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy—and Yours The Root 2009-10-08 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University First Lady Michelle Obama’s maternal third-great-grandfather was a white man who fathered Melvinia Shields’ (her maternal third great-grandmother) son, Dolphus T. Shields, both slaves.…