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: Southern California Law Review
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The “Common Sense” of Race Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 441-452 Neil Gotanda, Professor of Law Western State University College of Law, Fullerton California In What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, Ariela J. Gross provides a compelling and nuanced account of race in…
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Race, Blood, and What the Alligator Knows: A Review of What Blood Won’t Tell Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 425-440 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law From the opening pages of Ariela J. Gross’s What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on…
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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…