Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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.
about
Tag: Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924
-
In a 1943 letter to local registrars, clerks, and legislators, Plecker asserted, “[T]here does not exist today a descendant of Virginia ancestors claiming to be an Indian who is unmixed with negro blood.”
-
Constructing and Contesting Color Lines: Tidewater Native Peoples and Indianness in Jim Crow Virginia George Washington University 2009-01-31 392 pages Laura Janet Feller A Dissertation submitted to The Faculty of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy…
-
The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930 American Journal of Medical Genetics Volume 16, Issue 4 Pages 483 – 492 December 1983 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320160407 Philip Reilly University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas Margery Shaw University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas Correspondence between Walter Ashby Plecker, Virginia State Registrar of…