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: Melville Jean Herskovits
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An anthropomorphic study of the black population in the United States, based on a study conducted in 1920.
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The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer, for the African Negroes, brought to the United States as slaves, have crossed in breeding with the dominant White population, as well as with the aboriginal American Indian types with whom they came into contact, so that there is today only a small percentage of the American Negroes…
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A Further Discussion of the Variability of Family Strains in the Negro-White Population of New York City Journal of the American Statistical Association Volume 20, Issue 151 (1925) pages 380-389 DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1925.10503502 Melville J. Herskovits A paper read at the meeting of Section H., American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Washington , D.C.,…
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“African and Cherokee by Choice”: Race and Resistance under Legalized Segregation American Indian Quarterly Volume 22, Numbers 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1998) pages 203-229 Laura L. Lovett, Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst Zora Neale Hurston once boasted that she was “the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s…
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It is important, in any consideration of the American Negro, to understand the use of the term. The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer, for the African Negroes, brought to the United States as slaves, have crossed in breeding with the dominant White population, as well as with the aboriginal American Indian types with whom…
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Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge University of Nebraska Press 2004 357 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-2187-1 Jerry Gershenhorn, Professor of History North Carolina Central University Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world…