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: Patterns of Prejudice
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The penalties of miscegenation Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 3, 1972 pages 10-12 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969062 Mary Dines (1927-2011) Paragraph 24 of “Commonwealth Citizens: Control after Entry: Immigration Rules” (Cmd. 4295) reads: “If a man who was admitted as a visitor or student, or in some other temporary capacity, marries a woman who is a…
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Taking racism into account does not mean refusing to collect and classify data in medical research according to race and ethnicity. On the contrary, those classifications provide important epidemiological information, as Risch et al. maintain, about the impact of social and environmental factors—including socio-economic inequities and cultural biases—on the health of individuals and groups. As…
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Against racial medicine Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 481-493 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020189 Joseph L. Graves Jr., Dean of University Studies; Professor of Biological Sciences North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro Michael R. Rose, Director of the University of California Network for Experimental Research on…
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Blood and stories: how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 303-333 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020064 Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and Women’s Studies Duke University In 2003 Howard University announced its intention to create a databank of the DNA of…
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Onerous passions: colonial anti-miscegenation rhetoric and the history of sexuality Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 4, 2011 pages 319-340 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.605843 Nadine Ehlers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Ehlers’s analysis revisits Foucauldian conceptualizations of the history of sexuality in order to map the inextricability of race, gender…
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How to read Michelle Obama Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 95 – 117 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563149 Maria Lauret, Reader in American Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Michelle Obama’s role as the first African American First Lady is more than merely symbolic. Her self-representation…