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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Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Emerging Issues and Enduring Challenges Praeger March 2016 415 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 9978-1-4408-3369-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3370-0 Edited by: Margaret Foegen Karsten, Professor of Human Resource Management; Internship Coordinator School of Business University of Wisconsin, Platteville For America to prosper, organizations need to address disparate treatment…
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Titled after the Latin term for “unknown land”—a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented—”Terra Incognita” is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings buried in history’s grand narratives.
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Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial-which spanned several…
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“Braided Skin” is the vibrant telling of experiences of mixed ethnicity, urban childhood, poverty and youthful dreams through various voices. Knight writes a confident rhythm of poetry, prose and erasure by using the recurring image of braiding–a different metaphor than “mixing,” our default when speaking the language of race.