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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Hapa-Palooza Festival: September 12, 13 & 15, 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2012-09-12, 2012-09-13 and 2012-09-15 Hapa-Palooza: A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts and Ideas is a new cultural festival that celebrates the city’s identity as a place of hybridity, synergy and acceptance. A vibrant fusion of music, dance, literary, artistic and film performances, Hapa-Palooza…
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Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…
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A quantitative method of morphological assessment of hybridization in the U. S. Negro-White male crania American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 41, Issue 2 (September 1974) pages 269–278 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330410209 Sudha S. Saksena Department of Sociology and Anthropology Muskingum College [Muskingum University], New Concord, Ohio Portions of this paper are based on a doctoral dissertation…
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Mothers and Their Biracial Children: Growing Up Biracial in a One Race Fits All Society Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio November 2009 86 pages Kristin Felts-Keller A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Education This thesis is a qualitative study on the Mothers of biracial children and the…
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Cole Porter Scores An Interracial Couple’s Highs And Lows National Public Radio All Things Considered Music: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection 2012-08-30 NPR Staff As summer winds down, All Things Considered is winding down its series “Music: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection.” For the past few months, the show has asked listeners to tell their…
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Purdue Hapa Student Association Callout Sept. 17, 2012 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Class of 1950, Room 121 2012-09-17, 18:00-20:00 CDT (Local Time) The term “Hapa” refers to a biracial/multiracial person with Asian and/or Pacific Islander roots. As a club, we promote both diversity and unity, and we strive to raise awareness of identity crisis…
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As the child of a native Japanese woman and an Irish American father, a salient feature of my life has been this ethnic heritage and the circumstances into which I was born in post—World War II Tokyo. My life, between Japan and the United States, has been marked heavily by my connections to these diverse…
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The Species Problem: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Racial Inferiority in the Origin of Man Controversy American Anthropologist Volume 72, Issue 6 (December 1970) pages 1319–1329 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00060 John S. Haller, Jr., Emeritus Professor of History Southern Illinois University, Carbondale The species problem and its implications in the origin of man controversy had grown in importance in…
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Reconstructing Molly Welsh: Race, Memory and the Story of Benjamin Banneker’s Grandmother University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2008 194 pages Sandra W. Perot Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department of History Molly Welsh, oral tradition captured…