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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Black–White Biracial Students in American Schools: A Review of the Literature Review of Educational Research Volume 79, Number 2 (June 2009) pages 776-804 DOI: 10.3102/0034654309331561 Rhina Fernandes Williams, Assistant Professor of Education Georgia State University With increasing numbers of students who identify as Black and White multi-racial and with the persistence of the Black–White test…
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White but Not Quite: Tones and Overtones of Whiteness in Brazil Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism Volume 13, Number 2 (July 2009) pages 39-56 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2009-005 Patricia de Santana Pinho State Univiersity of New York, Albany This article analyzes anecdotes, jokes, standards of beauty, color categories, and media representations of “mixed-race” individuals to…
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Melungeon (pronounced /məˈlʌndʒən/) is a term traditionally applied to one of a number of “tri-racial isolate” groups of the Southeastern United States, mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia: east Tennessee, southwest Virginia, and east Kentucky. Tri-racial describes populations thought to be of mixed (1) European, (2) sub-Saharan African, and (3) Native American…
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Mixing It Up: Early African American Settlements in Northwestern Ohio Journal of Black Studies Volume 39, Number 6 (July 2009) pages 924-936 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707305432 Jill E. Rowe, Assistant professor, African American studies Virginia Commonwealth University Prior to the 19th century, African American settlers founded a number of productive communities in northwestern Ohio. During this time…
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mix-d: (pronounced “mixed”) Describes a position of pride and place where one can bring all sides of their cultural identity together and express an identity which is similar to but not specifically like either. By dropping the term race we make a step forward and begin to talk about a fully lived experience rather than…
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…professors and medical doctors offered scientific evidence that ‘race mixture’ contaminated Europeans, biologically and culturally, and gave rise to a population of mixed origins that was physically inferior and psychologically unstable. …At the same time, the vigour with which White men opposed ‘race mixture’ officially, especially for men of colour, was exceeded only by the…
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What this current discourse is about is lifting the lid of racial oppression in our institutions and letting people identify with the totality of their heritage. We have created a nightmare for human dignity. Multiracialism has the potential for undermining the very basis of racism, which is its categories. (G. Reginald Daniel, The New Yorker,…