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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Biracial Americans: The Advantages of White Blood Chapter 8 of An Historical Analysis of Skin Color Discrimination in America Springer 2010 200 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5504-3 Chapter: pages 109-126 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5505-0_8 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Similar to that of Native Americans, the genesis of victim-group discrimination for biracial Americans…
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Half-Caste (An Excerpt) Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 1, (2008) 6 pages Angela Ajayi At about the age of nineteen, a year after I arrived for college in the United States, I stopped thinking of myself as “half-caste.” The word, so loaded in its literal meaning and with its colonial roots, was…
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Alumni Profile • Angela Ajayi ’97 The Calvin Spark The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Calvin College Fall 2005 Working at the big question Who am I and how do I fit in this world? While every person struggles with these questions, they come to Angela Ajayi ’97 with some particular twists. The daughter…
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‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English University of Córdoba In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined…
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For some time past the writer has been in close contact with girls of Anglo-Chinese and Anglo-Negro origin who are unable to find employment because social stigma refuses to allow them to mix in our society in the ordinary way. They are British citizens, and they are the weakest of our citizens, and as such…
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In full agreement with this suggestion of glandular disturbance is the general opinion of biologists that the human hybrid shows a typical instability in mental and moral respects—a want of balance. His motives and actions are incalculable, his impulses stronger that his self-control. I feel more and more convinced that the inmates of our prisons…