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: Noûs
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One influential view is that at least some putatively natural human kinds are actually social constructions, understood as some real kind of thing that is produced or sustained by our social and conceptual practices. Category constructionists share two commitments: they hold that human category terms like “race” (and racial terms) and “sex” (and sexual terms)…
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Passing, Traveling and Reality: Social Constructionism and the Metaphysics of Race Noûs Volume 38, Issue 4 (December 2004) pages 644–673 DOI: 10.1111/j.0029-4624.2004.00487.x Ron Mallon, Associate Professor of Philosphy University of Utah Among race theorists, the view that race is a social construction is widespread. While the term ‘social construction’ is sometimes intended tomeanmerely that race…