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Tag: Ancestry

Photos from 11th Annual Loving Day Flagship Celebration - NYC
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Photos & updates from Loving Day flagship celebration - 2014
Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective
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Although this historical account of the construction of the race notion in the West is widely accepted, disagreement exists about whether it describes the only instance in which a human society invented a race-like belief.
Mixed Experience History Month 2014
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Check in each weekday for a new profile by Heidi Durrow
Thoughts on "Racial-Type Photography"
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Is modern race-photography celebrating the dismantling of race or...?
On National Geographic's Prediction for 2050
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Will increased racial mixing finally and permanently redefine how we imagine our racial identities?
The Men Who Left Were White
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Personal essay about the history of mixed African and European ancestry
One Drop of Love - a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni
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How does our belief in race affect our most intimate relationships?
Zines from the Borderlands: Storytelling about Mixed-Heritage
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Come talk about race, gender, sexuality and media with four zinesters, activists and media-makers.
What's Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History & Genealogy
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Part 2 on our readings series Quantifying Bloodlines
Mixed Race Britain
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Readers share thoughts on being mixed race in Britain via The Guardian