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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Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots The New York Times 2014-09-12 Michael T. Luongo The chapel in the small lakeside resort community of Chascomús is at best underwhelming. Its whitewashed brick exterior is partly obstructed by a tangle of vines and bushes, and its dim, one-room interior is no more majestic than its facade. Wooden pews…
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Juxta: A film by Hiroko Yamazaki Women Make Movies 1989 29 minutes BW, 16mm/DVD Order No. W99356 Hiroko Yamazaki This beautiful drama observes the psychological effects of racism on two children of Japanese women and American servicemen. Thirty-one year old Kate, the daughter of a Japanese/white mixed marriage visits her childhood friend, Ted, a Japanese-Black…
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Claude Haffner: “Black Here, White There” | “Footprints of My Other” African Women in Cinema Blog 2012-03-15 Beti Ellerson, Director/Directrice Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema Interview with Claude Haffner and translation from French by Beti Ellerson, March 2012. An interview with Franco-Congolese filmmaker Claude Haffner by Beti Ellerson regarding…
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Creoles and Melungeons: More Important Than Ever to America Melungeon Heritage Association: One People, All Colors 2014-08-22 Nick Douglas The unique origins of Creoles and Melungeons parallel and complement each other. Their genesis is a uniquely American phenomenon. Creoles, like Melungeons, are a race of black, white and Native American people. Most Creoles and Melungeons…
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Making mixed babies Bump 2 Baby: Pregnancy & Mothering Blog 2014-09-11 Jody-Lan Castle, Linked Data Specialist BBC News As the world becomes increasingly more heterogeneous, having a mixed identity is increasingly common. It’s really important to make children aware of their family background. The memories of my own parents’ family histories had already begun to…
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I am not Pocahontas The Weeklings (also in Salon) 2014-09-04 Elissa Washuta AS A COWLITZ Indian child, white-skinned and New Jersey-born, I grew up fielding the question, “How much Indian are you?” without any sense of its meaning. Once I was old enough to know that my mother was Indian and my father wasn’t, I began…
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In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-09-09 Steve Haruch In the Gwanak-gu neighborhood of Seoul, there is a box. Attached to the side of a building, the box resembles a book drop at a public library, only larger, and…