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: Patricia Williams
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‘The Black Calhouns,’ by Gail Lumet Buckley Book Review The New York Times 2016-03-16 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York THE BLACK CALHOUNS From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family By Gail Lumet Buckley Illustrated. 353 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26. In…
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Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US The Guardian 2012-05-18 Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York The rise in academic book bannings and firings is compounded by the US’s growing disregard for scholarship itself Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has…
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Who You Really Are GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 27, Issue 2 (May-July 2014) Robert Pollack, Professor of Biological Sciences, Earth Institute Professor, Adjunct Professor of Religion, Lecturer in Psychiatry Columbia University, New York, New York Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York “International Biosciences offer a broad…
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A lawsuit is being waged against the “wrongful birth” of a black child.
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American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World Harvard University Press 2014-02-17 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN 9780674073050 Anita Reynolds (1901-1980), actress, dancer, model, and psychologist with Howard Miller, Professor of Education and Chair in the Department of Secondary Education Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Edited by: George Hutchinson,…
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In fact, of course, we’re all mutts—and as Americans, we’ve been mixing it up faster and more thoroughly than anyplace on earth. At the same time, we live in a state of tremendous denial about the rambunctiousness of our recent lineage. The language by which we assign racial category narrows or expands our perception of…
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Race is a hierarchical social construct that assigns human value and group power. Social constructions are human inventions, the products of mind and circumstance. This is not to say that they are imaginary. Racialized taxonomies have real consequences upon biological functions, including the expression of genes. They affect the material conditions of survival-relative respect and…