Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

In contrast to the courts that openly struggle with fluid racial identities, others deal with the problem by merely assigning a category to a fluid identity individual in order to make the prima facie case analysis a simpler proposition. In cases out of Virginia, Texas, and Minnesota, courts were presented with claims brought by a mixed race plaintiff but gave scant if any attention to this complex identity, preferring to simply assign the plaintiff a category that allowed for easy application of the McDonnell Douglas protected class paradigm. In these cases, the courts typically noted that the plaintiffs identified themselves as “multiracial,” or “biracial,” and then proceeded to describe them simply as “black” or “African American” for the remainder of the opinion. This was the case even where the alleged discrimination consisted of harassing statements that seemed to have been directed specifically at the plaintiff’s mixed race status.

Leora F. Eisenstadt, “Fluid Identity Discrimination,” American Business Law Journal, Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 2015, 817. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ablj.12056.

Building a Mixed Race Community: The People, Building, and Sites of the Winton Triangle

Posted in Arts, History, Media Archive, United States on 2024-03-17 21:59Z by Steven

Building a Mixed Race Community: The People, Building, and Sites of the Winton Triangle

Photoworks at Glen Echo Park
2024-02-09 through 2024-03-31
7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Glen Echo, Maryland

Photoworks is delighted to host the work of acclaimed photojournalist and historian, Marvin Tupper Jones, in the exhibition, Building a Mixed Race Community. The show will be on display from February 9th – March 31st.

The history covered in this exhibit spans from 1851 to 1973 and takes the viewer from the antebellum time through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the modern Civil Rights eras. It tells stories about over 30 people along with photographs and text. Four women are featured, as well as business people, farmers, carpenters, educators, church leaders, soldiers (Civil War and WWII), Civil Rights activists and organizations.

For more information, click here.

Tags: Marvin Jones, Marvin T. Jones, Marvin Tupper Jones, North Carolina, Photoworks at Glen Echo Park

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