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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Author: Steven
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..It was always a longstanding, almost obsessive concern with me to attempt to build an existence outside of the world of racism, animosity, and rejection that I felt, separated from other Chinese people. I was told I was not Chinese by both relatives and unrelated people alike and believed that I wasn’t because of it. …
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Hybridity haunts the dreams of racial purity, then but not solely as its structural foil. Certainly the existence of racial “hybrids” infuriated racists, as demonstrated by the efforts of nineteenth-century scientists to prove that mulattos were infertile and would naturally die out. But hybridity also interrupts the ability of race to narrativize time. I find…
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Hybridity refers in its most basic sense to mixture. The term originates from biology and was subsequently employed in linguistics and in racial theory in the nineteenth century. Its contemporary uses are scattered across numerous academic disciplines and is salient in popular culture. This article explains the history of hybridity and its major theoretical discussion…
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“What Are You?” Biracial Children in the Classroom Childhood Education Volume 84, Number 4 Summer 2008 pp.230-233 Association for Childhood Education International Traci P. Baxley, Assistant Professor College of Education Florida Atlantic University Over the last 30 years, biracial individuals have become one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. Despite this rapid…
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In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been constantly conceptualized through the measure of phenotype, the quantity of blood, the preservation of language, or the possession of surname. But what happens when African American bodies and other nonwhite cultural sites…
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Juggling Multiple Racial Identities: Malleable Racial Identification and Psychological Well-Being Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 15, Issue 3, July 2009 pages 243-254 DOI: 10.1037/a0014373 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Margaret Shih, Professor in Management and Organizations Anderson School of Management University of California, Los…