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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Category: Books
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William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader University of Nebraska Press 2007 212 pages 9 photographs, 2 maps, figure, index, 2 appendixes Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4327-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2498-8 Theresa M. Schenck, Associate Professor of Life Sciences Communications and American Indian Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison This is the first full-length…
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Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America New York University Press November 2012 272 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814765463 Paper ISBN: 9780814765470 Antonio López, Assistant Professor of English George Washington University In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a…
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Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan University Of Hawai‘i Press May 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3344-2 Taku Suzuki, Assistant Professor of International Studies Denison University, Granville, Ohio Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial…
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Double Native: A moving memoir about living across two cultures University of Queensland Press 2012-01-03 304 pages ISBN: 978 0 7022 3917 5 Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung Growing up ‘on country’ on the west coast of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and ’80s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age…
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Melbourne University Publishing March 2002 364 pages 235 x 154 mm, 25 b/w illustrations & 4 maps Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-522-84989-9 Warwick Anderson, Research Professor of History University of Sydney Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004 In this lucid and original…
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Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century.