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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As a young woman of mixed race, Nellie Kincaid is about to encounter the strange, unsettling summer of her fifteenth year.
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Blood & Belonging Amazon Digital Services 2018-11-09 156 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1730892684 Sirinda Pairin Siri Pairin’s poems explore the challenges and triumphs of biracial identity. With an honest and minimalist style, she writes about themes such as duality, belonging, love, home, space, culture, identity, race, ethnicity, heritage, and representation.
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Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture Rutgers University Press 2018-10-17 296 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-9788-0130-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-9788-0131-8 PDF ISBN: 978-1-9788-0134-9 EPUB ISBN: 978-1-9788-0132-5 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-1-9788-0133-2 Edited by: Domino Perez, Associate Professor of English University of Texas, Austin Rachel González-Martin, Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies University of…
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Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize Rutgers University Press 2018-11-01 226 pages 24 b&w images 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8135-9698-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-9699-0 EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8135-9700-3 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-0-8135-9701-0 PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-9702-7 Melissa A. Johnson, Professor of Anthropology Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their…
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In “Colonial Complexions,” historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance.
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In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West.
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Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind
In “Race Experts” Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in “The Races of Mankind” series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930.
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Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II.
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In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”—and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America’s infamously black–white racial regime.