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: Transforming Anthropology
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This article aims to examine changing understandings of race in Brazil, not as it transforms larger social and political structures, but as it is continuously reframed on the micro-social or everyday level. I argue that the critical practice of learning about and responding to subjugated knowledge and alternative experiences have the potential to transgress boundaries…
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Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2000) pages 19–29 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2000.9.2.19 Diana Smay Emory University George Armelago, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropolgy (1936-2014) Emory University Anthropology has been haunted by the misuse of the race concept since its beginnings. Although…
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Caroline Bond Day (1889–1948): A Black Woman Outsider Within Physical Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 20, Issue 1, April 2012 pages 79–89 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01145.x Anastasia C. Curwood, Visiting Fellow James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia This article examines the significance of Caroline Bond Day’s vindicationist anthropological work on mixed-race families…
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Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala and El Salvador; 1670-1720 Transforming Anthropology Volume 12, Issue 1-2 (January 2004) Pages 9 – 20 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2004.12.1-2.9 Paul Lokken, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Bryant University, Smithfield Rhode Island This article examines an important moment in the history of people of African origins in the region now encompassed…