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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Afro-Latino/a Identities: Challenges, History, and Perspectives Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 9, Issue 1 (2012-04-20) Article 5 Sobeira Latorre, Assistant Professor of Spanish Southern Connecticut State University Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, editors, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 584 pp. The Afro-Latin@…
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Now, I have always believed that what is now widely considered one of slavery’s worst legacies—the Southern “one-drop” rule that indicted anyone with black blood as a nigger and cleaved American society into black and white with a single stroke—was also slavery’s only upside. Of course I deplore the motive behind the law, which was…
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Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building (review) The Americas Volume 62, Number 2, October 2005 pages 280-281 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2005.0157 Nancy E. Castro University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building. By Debra J. Rosenthal. Chapel Hill: University…
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I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World
I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World Jossey-Bass May 2000 304 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7879-5234-1 Marguerite A. Wright A child’s concept of race is quite different from that of an adult. Young children perceive skin color as magical—even changeable—and unlike adults, are incapable of understanding adult predjudices surrounding…
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Lessons From a Preservice Teacher: Examining Missed Opportunities For Multicultural Education in an English Education Program Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring 2012) 10 pages Amy M. Vetter, Assistant Professor Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, School of Education University of North Carolina, Greensboro Jeanie Reynolds, Lecturer/Director of…
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The presence of a biracial race would certainly disrupt popular ideas about race, but as scholars supporting biracial identity root it in biological notions of race “mixture,” it seems unlikely that such a disruption would result in the end of racial classifications. Work on race in the Caribbean and Latin America shows that a racially…
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One of the first things we notice about people when we meet them (along with their sex) is their race. We utilize race to provide clues about who a person is. This fact is made painfully clear when we encounter someone whom we cannot conveniently racially categorize—someone who is for example, racially ‘‘mixed’’ or of…