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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Plessy as “Passing”: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson Law & Society Review Volume 39, Issue 3 (September 2005) pages 563–600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x Mark Golub, Assistant Professor of Politics & International Relations Scripps College, Claremont, California The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is infamous for its doctrine of…
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Interrogating Identity Construction: Bodies versus Community in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 61-69 Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In an interview for the journal MELUS, Hsiu-chuan Lee claims that Cynthia Kadohata…
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“What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter] Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi B.V. 2002-09-15 328 pages ISBN-10: 9042014180 ISBN-13: 978-9042014183 pp. 1-25(25) edited by Teresa Hubal and Neil Brooks Peter Clandfield, Assistant Professor of English Studies Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada The work of the…
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AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fall 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary American black/white multiracial identities, including analyses and assessments of the “multiracial identity movement” in the United States.
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Diversity on a Personal Level: A First Look at Multiple Race Population Indiana Business Review Summer 2001 pages 6-7 John Besl, Research Demographer Indiana Business Research Center, Kelley School of Business Indiana University For many decades, census data have provided a look at racial diversity in our nation’s communities. But Census 2000 offers a truly…
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HapaSC: A Place Multiracial Call Home Campus Circle News Los Angeles, California 2010-08-16 Stephanie Forshee Multiracial students at USC [University of Southern California] like Lauren Perez are devoting time to create a place where you can express every part of yourself. HapaSC is an organization of about 30 USC students that raises awareness for “mixed”…
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New England Identities: Black New England Conference University of New Hampshire 2009-06-11 thorugh 2009-06-13 New England: Beyond Black & White Moving beyond rigid racial identities, this year’s conference will explore the contemporary as well as historic interactions between Black and Indigenous communities, the presence of “passing” mixed race individuals, and the more recent immigrant experience,…