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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“Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt” is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt’s novels. Examining the three published in Chesnutt’s lifetime—”The House Behind the Cedars,” “The Marrow of Tradition,” and “The Colonel’s Dream”—as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a black writer who wrote primarily…
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World Premiere of “Family Portrait in Black and White” at 2011 Sundance Film Festival Family Portrait in Black and White 2011 Interfilm Productions, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Directed by: Julia Ivanova Producted by Boris Ivanov OLGA NENYA is a foster mother to SIXTEEN BLACK ORPHANS in Ukraine—where 99.9% of the population is white and…
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American Mixed-Race Literature: Cultural History, Precursors, Identities, and Forms of Expression Purdue University 2004 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3166693 ISBN: 9780542022999 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjust Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This dissertation focuses on recent instances of mixed race literature in American culture such as Danzy Senna’s novel Caucasia, Rebecca…
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From Manenberg to Soweto: race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews African Studies Volume 62, Issue 2 (December 2003) pages 171-186 DOI: 10.1080/0002018032000148740 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects…
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Race Classification at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: Purposes, Sites and Practices IOLS‐Research, Dr. Shaun Ruggunan and ccrri For: Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity (ccrri) University of Kwazulu-Natal 2010-11-08 59 pages Race classification has long been a feature of South African life, in daily life and its cognitive processes, and also in formal…
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It is known that neither the Indian nor Negro contends in dignity and esteem with the Spaniard; nor do any of the others envy the lot of the Negro, who is the “most dispirited and despised”. […] It is held as systematic that a Spaniard and an Indian produce a mestizo; a mestizo and a…
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The whole story on being ‘hafu’ CNN International CNN Go 2010-11-29 Daniel Krieger The movie ‘Hafu’ explores the limbo world of people who are half-Japanese and half something else, as they try to find their place in society What does it mean to be half-Japanese in 21st-century Japan? This is what filmmakers Megumi Nishikura and…
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Biracial Youth and Families in Therapy: Issues and Interventions Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 26, Issue 3 (July 2000) pages 305–315 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00300.x Stephanie Milan, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Connecticut Margaret K. Keiley, Professor Director of Clinical Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families Auburn University Empirical research and clinical resources…