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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The Rise of Ethnic Pride for Multicultural Americans TheGuyOnSports 2013-04-13 Damien Haynes In America, race and skin color are some of the most critiqued and analyzed issues within our society. For some people, growing up of mixed race decent can either be a detriment or a blessing. It can separate you from the rest of…
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Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia University of Western Australia Publishing March 2006 384 pages 250 x 170 mm Hardcover ISBN: 9781920694418 Regina Ganter, Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Awards Won – 2007 NSW Premier’s Awards (Community and Regional History Prize) Won – 2007 Ernest Scott History Prize Australian histories too…
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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich…
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The Race of Birth: Systemic Racism Again? Racism Review 2013-05-05 Sharon Chang, Guest blogger Multiracial Asian Families The other day I was reading and came across this: Prior to 1989, the race on a newborn’s birth certificate was determined by the race of the parents. An infant with one White parent was assigned the race…
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I encountered a challenge to my beliefs about multi-race studies when I began to read Rainier Spencer’s (1999) ideas. He is boldly critical of multi-race theory, which pushed me to think critically about my own understandings of multiracialism.
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White Without Soap [Review] Australian Womens Book Review Volume 23.1&2 (2011) pages 16-18 Jean Taylor Marguerita Stephens. White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835–1888, A Political Economy of Race. Melbourne: Melbourne University Custom Book Centre, 2010. As it says on the frontispiece, White Without Soap was a PhD thesis in the…