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: Nature
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“Historically, these ideas serve to deny the presence of Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants. To say that they no longer exist, that they have been absorbed by the process of mestizaje,” says [Juliet] Hooker, who experienced this as a girl when her family moved from the Afro-Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, where she grew up, to its…
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Genetic continuity across transitions in pottery styles reveals that cultural changes during the Ceramic Age were not driven by migration of genetically differentiated groups from the mainland, but instead reflected interactions within an interconnected Caribbean world.
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The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science Published online: 2014-12-03 15 pages DOI: 10.1038/nature13997 Deepti Gurdasani Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom et. al. Given the importance of Africa to studies of human origins and disease susceptibility, detailed characterization of African genetic…
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Leonard Darwin Scholarship of the Eugenics Society Nature Volume 138, Number 3496 (1936-11-31) page 756 DOI: 10.1038/138756a0 The Eugenics Society has established a second Leonard Darwin scholarship, which is to be devoted to the investigation of racial crossing. The first holder is J. C. Trevor, a graduate of Oxford in anthropology, who has spent the…