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: Rose Cuison Villazor
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In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate relationships.
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The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage New York University Law Review Volume 86, Number 5 (November 2011) pages 1361-1443 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law University of California, Davis This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The traditional narrative of the history of the American racial regulation…
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Blood Quantum Land Laws and the Race versus Political Identity Dilemma California Law Review Volume 96 (2008) pages 801-838 Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Modern equal protection doctrine treats laws that make distinctions on the basis of indigeneity defined on blood quantum terms along a racial versus political paradigm. This dichotomy…
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Reading between the (Blood) Lines Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (2010) pages 473-494 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Legal scholars and historians have depicted the rule of hypodescent—that “one drop” of African blood categorized one as Black—as one of the powerful ways that law and society…