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 Born Identity Arise Magazine Issue 12 2011-09-28 Sarah Bentley Photography by Liz Johnson-Artur Thirty-six year-old Egor Belov has just told a childhood anecdote about scrubbing his face until it drew blood. He’d been playing in the snow and wanted pink cheeks like his friends. His dark complexion was never going to turn his desired…
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The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood Hachette Book Group 2001 368 pages 5-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ Paperback ISBN:9780316284615 Kien Nguyen A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, ‘The Unwanted’ is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and who is…
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MixedRaceStudies.org Reaches 3,000 Posts 2011-10-03 Steven F. Riley MixedRaceStudies.org, called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical mixed-race theory,” and the recipient of other praise has reached its 3,000th post! Created in May 2009 by Steven F. Riley, this free online resource consists of links to: almost…
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Eurasian/Amerasian perspectives: Kim Lefèvre’s Métisse Blanche (White Métisse) and Kien Nguyen’s The Unwanted Asian Studies Review Volume 29, Issue 2 (2005) pages 107-122 DOI: 10.1080/10357820500221162 Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, Associate Professor of Historical and Philosophical Studies University of Melbourne This article examines the articulation of Kim Lefèvre’s and Kien Nguyen’s difficult and traumatic childhoods in…
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2010 Census Shows Black Population has Highest Concentration in the South United States Census Bureau CB11-CN.185 2011-09-29 People Who Reported as Both Black and White More than Doubled The U.S. Census Bureau released today a 2010 Census brief, The Black Population: 2010, that shows 14 percent of all people in the United States identified as…
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No stigma was associated [in the early 1600s] with what we today call intermarriages. Black men servants often married white women servants. Records from one county reveal that one fourth of the children born to European servant girls were mulatto (Breen and Ennis 1980). Historian Anthony Parent (2003) notes that five out of ten black…
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“Home is Nowehere”: Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds University of Georgia 2007 57 pages Julia A. Tigner A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS The Bildungsroman, a term that derived from German literary criticism, is a genre of…