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: Ronald E. Hall
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The women were called “fancy girls” and paraded at quadroon balls, events for wealthy white men to meet and mingle with them. Lighter-skinned black men, meanwhile, were dubbed “run ‘round men” because, with their fairer skin, they could supposedly have their pick of any woman in the black community.
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But it was Green’s last point, mentioned almost as an aside – “And of course, Steph is light-skinned so [players] want to make him out to be soft” – that got the most attention.
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This debate over “who counts” has created somewhat of an identity crisis in the black community, exposing a divide between those who think being black should be based on physical looks, and those who think being black is more than looks.
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Biracial Americans: The Advantages of White Blood Chapter 8 of An Historical Analysis of Skin Color Discrimination in America Springer 2010 200 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5504-3 Chapter: pages 109-126 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5505-0_8 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Similar to that of Native Americans, the genesis of victim-group discrimination for biracial Americans…