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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Indians and Mestizos: Identity and Urban Popular Culture in Andean Peru Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2000) pages 239 – 253 DOI: 10.1080/03057070050010093 Fiona Wilson The article begins with a discussion of the chronology of conquest and liberation in Peru and reflects on the changing meanings given to the racial…
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Biracial (Black/White) Women: A Qualitative Study of Racial Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for Therapy Women & Therapy Volume 27, Issue 1 & 2 (January 2004) pages 45 – 64 DOI: 10.1300/J015v27n01_04 Tamara R. Buckley, Associate Professor of Counseling Hunter College, City University of New York Carter T. Robert, Professor of Psychology and Education…
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Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba Slavery & Abolition Volume 31, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 29-55 DOI: 10.1080/01440390903481647 Karen Y. Morrison, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Massachusetts, Amherst This paper outlines the mechanisms used to position the offspring of slave women and white men at…
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Census Chief Apologizes for ‘Negro’ Category The New York Times 2010-03-26 Kate Phillips When Robert Groves, the director of the Census Bureau, appeared on C-Span’s “Washington Journal” program Friday morning, he found himself having to defend the racial designations on the census form… Read the entire article here.
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) consists of fifty-nine high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses, from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2007, and from the Puerto Rican Community Surveys of 2005-2007. Some of these samples have existed for years, and others were created…
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Double Consciousness in the Work of Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans Women: A Cultural Review Volume 20, Issue 3 (December 2009) pages 277-286 DOI: 10.1080/09574040903285735 Pilar Cuder-Domnguez, Associate Professor University of Huelva, Spain The first novels published by Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans feature twins of mixed-race parentage—a Nigerian mother and an English father—growing up…