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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Stalking the Biracial Hidden Self in Henry James’s The Sense of the Past and “The Jolly Corner” The Henry James Review Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2004 pages 276-284 E-ISSN: 1080-6555, Print ISSN: 0273-0340 DOI: 10.1353/hjr.2004.0027 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas This essay argues that, for James, the visible…
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Variablity in Race Hybrids American Anthropologist Volume 40, Issue 4 (October-December 1938) pages 680–697 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1938.40.4.02a00090 Wilson D. Wallis (1886-1970) In his revised edition of The Mind of Primitive Man [Read here], Professor [Franz] Boas warns against assuming “on the basis of a low variability that a type is pure, for we know that some mixed…
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Hyperdescent is the practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry in the more socially dominant of the parents’ races. Hyperdescent is the opposite of hypodescent (the practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry in the more socially subordinate parental race). Both hyperdescent and hypodescent vary from other methods of determining lineage,…
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Cinderella Story: A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matter AltaMira Press February 2010 228 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-7591-1176-6 / 978-0-7591-1176-9 James Haywood Rolling, Jr., Associate Professor of Art Education Syracuse University Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the…
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Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900 Duke University Press 2010 296 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4745-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4764-4 Vanita Seth, Associate Professor of Politics University of California, Santa Cruz Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of…