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: Yale Law Journal
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The use of defamation law to reinforce privately held class-based animus traces back at least to the eighteenth century. In 1791, South Carolina’s court of last resort held that falsely describing an individual as a mulatto was actionable “because, if true, the [plaintiff] would be deprived of all civil rights.” False imputations that white persons…
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Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction Yale Law Journal Volume 118, Issue 8 (June 2009) pages 1844-1898 Dov Fox, Academic Law Research Fellow Georgetown University Law Center This Note considers the moral status of practices that facilitate parental selection of sperm donors according to race. Arguments about intentions and consequences cannot convincingly explain the race-conscious design…
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The Negro Defined The Yale Law Journal Volume 20, Number 3 (January, 1911) pages 224-225 In many of the states where a considerable portion of the population is colored, statutes define the term negro and establish his status where the same is considered, because of local conditions, as essentially different from that of Caucasians. Where…
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The Secret History of Race in the United States The Yale Law Journal Volume 112, Issue 6 (March 2003) pages 1473-1509 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Associate Professor of Law Vanderbilt University In the beginning, there was a man named Looney. George Looney’s world was Buchanan County, Virginia, a pocket of Appalachian hills and hollows that juts…