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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Where Are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies – The True Story of an Extraordinary Family Blackstaff Press 2010-12-06 208 pages 5.4 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0856408533 Tim Brannigan Tim Brannigan was born in Belfast in 1966, and spent the first year of his life in St Joseph’s…
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White is Right, But Light-Skin is the Next Best Thing Media Diversified 2016-05-23 Shane Thomas The arrival of summer means a number of things: Intermittent sunshine, music festivals where at least one white person gets their cultural appropriation on; and superhero movies. Lots of superhero movies. Box-office takings are the engine of established Western cinema,…
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Filipino Americans: Blending Cultures, Redefining Race Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-05-24 Renee Montagne, Host There are over 3 million people of Filipino heritage living in the U.S., and many say they relate better to Latino Americans than other Asian American groups. In part, that can be traced to the history…
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Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush Christian John Høgsbjerg University of Leeds Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 13, Issue 1 (The Caribbean Radical Tradition) May 2016 Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015), 410 pp. In Black London, Marc Matera’s wide-ranging historical…
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Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century University of California Press May 2015 414 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520284296 Paperback ISBN: 9780520284302 E-Book ISBN: 9780520959903 Marc Matera, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site…
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Charles Chesnutt Racial Relation Progression Throughout Career Cleveland State University May 2011 60 pages Lindy R. Birney Submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Master of English Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to judge others. He felt that through literature he…
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Amrita Hepi interview Time Out Sydney 2015-05-24 Dee Jefferson, Arts & Culture Editor Sydney knows – and loves – Amrita for her Hollaback nights and Beyoncé dance classes, but her latest project is far more fierce Amrita Hepi was in the final creative phase of her dance-theatre work Passing, with New Zealand-born dancer and spoken-word…
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Skinship: Dialectical Passing Plots in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative American Literary Realism Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2014 pages 116-136 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut Racial definitions were in crisis within the U.S. during the mid-nineteenth century, with the country moving closer and closer to a Civil…
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‘In Negroland we thought of ourselves as the Third Race’ The Guardian 2016-05-22 Margo Jefferson An extract from Negroland, Margo Jefferson’s memoir of growing up in postwar America’s emerging black elite Margo Jefferson: ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’ I was taught to avoid showing off. I was taught…