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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Author: Steven
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The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives Beacon Press 2012-08-21 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-080706912-7 Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and African American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Donald Weise, Independent Scholar in African American history The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.…
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Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 University of Pennsylvania Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-3867-9 Jill Lane, Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies New York University Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through…
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I think it would be wise for people who are biracial and multiracial to never forget that this is a system of formal historical and institutional white supremacy. And I’m afraid sometimes, there are a lot incentives that the culture puts out there to biracial and multiracial people to forget that… …Because they’re not quite…
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What explains the rise of Intermarriage? The US had a big immigration reform in 1965, which led to a sharp rise in immigration from Asia and Latin America. As the US population became more racially diverse, there was more opportunity for Americans to meet (and fall in love with) people from other races. Immigrant destinations…
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Unless radical measures are used to prevent it, Virginia and other parts of the Nation must surely in time go the way of all other countries in which people of two or more races have lived in close contact. With the exception of the Hebrew race, complete intermixture or amalgamation has been the inevitable result.…
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Students more likely to identify as multiracial The Stanford Daily: Breaking News from the Farm Since 1892 Stanford University 2012-10-24 Taylor Chambers Erika Roach ’13 identifies herself as “Blasian,” while Marcus Montanez-Leaks ’13 says he’s “Blexican.” These terms and others used to describe mixed race individuals are becoming more common in conversation and student groups…
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Against Black-Face Roles in German Theatre Avaaz: Community Petitions 2012-10-14 Gyavira Lasana Last January Schlosspark Theatre in Berlin opened “I’m Not Rappaport” by Herb Gardner. The production featured a white actor in black-face in the role of Midge Carter, portrayed in New York by Ossie Davis. When concerned theatre professionals complained on the website of…