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: National Institute for Latino Policy
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Should “Latino” be a Race on the Census? National Institute for Latino Policy Guest Commentary 2014-10-26 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California Few questions cause as much existential angst among Latino intellectuals as this one. The Latino origin question was added to the Census in such a hurry back in 1970, that little…
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An Inconvenient Truth: “Hispanic” is an ethnic origin, not a “race” National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-08-24 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico Kenneth Prewitt’s provocative August 21st New York Times commentary calls us to “fix the census archaic racial categories.” He contends that the current national…