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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Mixed Race Students in College: The Ecology of Race, Identity, and Community on Campus SUNY Press July 2004 308 pages Hardback ISBN10: 0-7914-6163-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6163-1 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-6164-5; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6164-8 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor Michigan State University Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students. Kristen A. Renn offers a new…
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Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press 2006 192 pages ISBN (paperback): 9780881460742 ISBN (hardback): 9780881460131 Tim Hashaw Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name “children of perdition” to…
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Recasting Race: women of mixed heritage in further education Trentham Books January 2008 160 pages 234 x 156mm ISBN: 9781858564050 ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 405 0 Indra Angeli Dewan Department of Sociology University of East London The mixed race population has shown an unprecedented increase in Britain in the last few years, and mixed race…
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Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America University of Michigan Press 2006 208 pages 6 x 9; 11 Tables & 8 Figures. Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03280-8 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science; Academic Director of the Center for Women, Politics & Policy at the Hatfield School of Government Portland State University, Portland,…
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“Biracial Women in Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race” examines how physical appearance, cultural knowledge, and cultural stereotypes affect the experience of mixed-race women in belonging to, and being accepted within, their cultures.
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Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…
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How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s “Black, Jewish, and Interracial.”
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Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States Westview Press 1999-08-12 240 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0813336775; ISBN-13: 978-0813336770 Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas Recent times have seen the rise of a movement lobbying for explicit recognition of multiracial identity as…