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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Biracial women pushed to undergo genetic screeening: Cobble Hill hospital focuses on mixed race New York Daily News 2013-01-13 Simone Weichselbaum As interracial families become more common, LICH docs quiz women on ethnicity Doctors are pushing biracial Brooklyn women to undergo genetic counseling to learn if their racial mix makes them more prone to disease.…
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Harry Potter and the mistaken myth of the Mixed-Race messiah Paper presented at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-03 6 pages Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Harry Potter franchise has worldwide popularity. Contained within Harry Potter are popular stories about Mixed-Race, both appealing and toxic. Harry Potter and…
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Mixed-Blood Marriage in North-Western New South Wales: A Survey of the Marital Conditions of 264 Aboriginal and Mixed-Blood Women Oceania Volume 22, Number 2 (December 1951) pages 116-129 Marie Reay This survey is based on family records of over 300 aboriginal and mixed-blood women in north-western New South Wales, collected during 1945-6. The records were…
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For the Movement: Community Education Supporting Multiracial Organizing Equity & Excellence in Education Volume 38, Issue 2, 2005 pages 145-154 DOI: 10.1080/10665680590935124 Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The multiracial people’s movement in the United States has expanded significantly in the last 10 years (Douglass, 2003). Historically, community-based education programs have supported social movements in…
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Race as International Identity? ‘Miscegenation’ in the U.S. Occupation of Japan and Beyond Amerikastudien / American Studies Volume 48, Number 1, Internationalizing U.S. History (2003) pages 61-77 Yukiko Koshiro The article attempts to retrieve the story of the little-known fate of so-called mixed-blood children, those born to American GIs and Japanese women in the aftermath…
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Afro-Mexicans and Winston-Salem Photo Gallery Winston-Salem Journal Winston-Salem, North Carolina November 2007 Ted Richardson, Photographer Irma Gonzales Alvarado prays before a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe at her Winston-Salem home. She invited several neighbors to her home on the last night of La Cuarentena, a 40-night observance of the Virgin leading up to Dec.…
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Bengali Harlem The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC 93.9 FM/ 820 AM 2013-01-11 Brian Lehrer, Host Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vivek Bald, documentary director and assistant professor of writing and digital media at MIT and the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian…