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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The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justice The News-Times Danbury, Connecticut 2010-02-24 Antoinette Bosco Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency. But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before…
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Ethnographic Pictorialism: Caroline Gurrey’s Hawaiian Types at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 172-183 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654943 Heather Waldroup, Associate Professor of Art History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina In 1909, a series of photographs by Honolulu portraitist Caroline Gurrey was exhibited at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in…
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Spinning on Margins: An Analysis of Passing as Communicative Phenomenon Queen: a journal of rhetoric and power Special Issue: Rehtorics of identity: Place, Race, Sex and the Person (January 2005) From the conference held from 2005-01-20 through 2005-01-22 at the University of Redlands 21 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Acts of black-to-white…
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From The Birth of a Nation to Havoc: The Evolution of Traditional Blackface to Modern Racial Passing in U.S. Cinema Pennsylvania State University August 2009 122 pages Dorian Randall A Thesis in Media Studies by Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Race is a complicated and debatable term…
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Off white The Indian Express New Delhi, India 2012-05-19 Census data confirms America’s enduring ability to bring the world home The United States has crossed a demographic tipping point, driven by changes in immigration, fertility and mortality patterns. By now, more than half the babies born in the US belong to a racial or ethnic…
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Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’ Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2012-04-28 Gretchen Wenner, Staff Reporter SQUAW VALLEY — Juror No. 8 from the Rodney King beating trial has always heard the 12-member panel described as either all white or as having no blacks. Now, he wants the public to know that’s not…
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‘Beautiful Hybrids’: Caroline Gurrey’s Photographs of Hawai‘i’s Mixed-race Children History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 184-198 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654947 Anne Maxwell, Associate Professor of English University of Melbourne, Australia In the early years of the twentieth century the Hawaiian-based American photographer Caroline Gurrey produced a much praised set of the photographs of…
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Contemporary US multiple heritage couples, individuals, and families: Issues, concerns, and counseling implications Counselling Psychology Quarterly Volume 25, Issue 2, (June 2012) Special Issue: Race, Culture, and Mental Health: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond pages 99-112 DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2012.674682 Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Multicultural Education and Consulting, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Kelley…