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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Comorbid substance use disorders with other Axis I and II mental disorders among treatment-seeking Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race people Journal of Psychiatric Research Available online 2013-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.08.022 Li-Tzy Wu, ScD, RN, MA, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Duke University Medical Center,…
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De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff The New York Times 2013-09-10 David M. Halbfinger, Reporter David W. Chen, City Hall Bureau Chief Bill de Blasio, whose campaign for mayor of New York tapped into a city’s deepening unease with income inequality and aggressive police practices, captured far more votes…
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Norma Storch Is Dead at 81; Subject of TV Documentary The New York Times 2003-09-21 Douglas Martin Norma Storch, a white woman whose decision to have her 4-year-old mixed-race daughter raised by a black couple became the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary made by the daughter in adulthood, died on Aug. 28 at her…
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Interracial Family Memoirs: Reconstructing Genealogies across the Color Line Yale University 230 Prospect Street Room 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06511 2013-09-16, 12:00-13:15 EDT (Local Time) Cedric Essi, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies University of Erlangen-Nürnberg During the last two decades numerous autobiographical works have emerged which explore family histories in black and white, such as…
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Finding the Silver Lining: Hair, (Mixed) Race, and Identity Politics in Toni and Slade Morrison’s Little Cloud and Lady Wind The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 37, Number 2, April 2013 pages 173-187 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2013.0016 Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Associate Professor of English Florida Atlantic University rainclouds we are nature nature nature natural!!! black people, we…
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By the 1930s and 40s, medical science and genetics, too, were providing empirical evidence that the notion of a biological basis for racial classifications was on increasingly shaky ground. They were finding that the distribution of genetic traits appeared to straddle previously defined racial groups, leading to suspicion that racial categories were problematic. Robert H.…
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Pulitzer-Winning Poet Dove Gives Rall Cultural Lecture nih record Volume LVX, Number 8 (2013-04-12) Carla Garnett Any ‘Discovery…a Little Bit of Poetry’ A mixed-race violin prodigy, a self-proclaimed “African prince” and Beethoven (yes, the Beethoven). That unlikely trio provides much of the fascinating storyline in poet Rita Dove’s latest book, Sonata Mulattica. The Pulitzer-winning former…
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Lecturer points to racism in Harry Potter The Daily Campus The Independent News Source for the University of Connecticut 2013-02-22 Christopher Kelly, Campus Correspondent Nature of science fiction discusses race in unseen ways Eric Hamako from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst came to speak to UConn students and faculty Wednesday about the increasing popularity of racist…
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Belle [World Premiere] Toronto International Film Festival 2013 TIFF Bell Lightbox Reitman Square 350 King Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013-09-05 through 2013-09-15 Film Information: Directed by Amma Asante 2013 105 minutes Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido…