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 ‘Native’ Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status and the Politics of Kinship in British Central Africa, 1929-38 The Journal of African History Volume 46, Issue 3 (2005) pages 455-478 DOI: 10.1017/S0021853705000861 Christopher Joon-Hai Lee University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This article examines the categorical problem that persons of ‘mixed-race’ background presented to British administrations…
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UCLA needs more than just one multiethnic club Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-10-11 Salim Zymet Only one student group promoting multiracialism is not enough for a campus as diverse as ours Where are you from? Answering that question can be difficult for some multiracial students. Perhaps you’re inclined to believe that despite…
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New multiracial category has effects nationally, few at Smith The Smith College Sophian Northampton, Massachusetts 2010-09-30 Gina Charusombat While Smith students speculate about the lack of diversity across disciplines of study, colleges and universities across the U.S. continue to track diversity on their campuses. On Sept. 19, the Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that the…
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The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History The Journal of Southeast Asian History Volume 5, Number 1 (March 1964) pages 62-100 DOI: 10.1017/S0217781100002222 Edgar Wickberg (1927-2008), Professor Emeritus of History University of British Columbia Our knowledge is still insufficient to allow us to assess the overall significance of the mestizo in Philippine history. But on the…
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In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—he examines a selection of texts that represent the entire…