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: Literary/Artistic Criticism
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This, That, Both, Neither: The Badging Of Biracial Identity In Young Adult Realism The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults The official research journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association 2013-04-22 Sarah Hannah Gómez, Graduate Student School of Library and Information Science Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Editor’s Note: “This, That, Both, Neither”…
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“Citizen Sure Thing” or “Jus’ Foreigner”?: Half-Caste Citizenship and the Family Romance in Onoto Watanna’s Orientalist Fiction Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 1, February 2010 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.0.0067 pages 81-105 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio In “a contract” (1902), one of Winnifred…
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“‘Tubbee’ and His Nieces: A Colloquy on White Men, Choctaw Women, Intermarriage and ‘Indianness’ in the Choctaw Intelligencer, 1851” Southeastern Oklahoma State University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 21-30 Richard Mize The Choctaw Intelligencer’s editorial commentary varied greatly when it came to Choctaw–Chickasaw relations with the United States in…
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Re-Visioning Wildfire: Historical Interpretations of the Life and Art of Edmonia Lewis Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 31-39 Julieanna Frost Concordia University As a feminist historian, one of my major goals is to reclaim the histories of women and to broadcast the diversity of the female…
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Black Indian With a Camera: The Work of Valena Broussard Dismukes Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 40-46 Sarita Cannon University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In this paper, I examine the liberatory photography of a living African-Choctaw-French American artist, Valena Broussard Dismukes. I am especially fascinated by the…
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Poetic Justice: Drake and East African Girls The Feminist Wire 2013-04-03 Safy-Hallan Farah, Guest Contributor I am an East African Girl. A couple years ago, one of my friends told me that being an East African meant I’m not really black. A visibly mixed-race girl with a “high yellow” complexion and sandy brown hair telling…
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Post Racialism, Romance, and The Real World D.C. FlowTV Volume 11, Issue 13 (2010-05-07) Jon Kraszewski, Assistant Professor of Communication Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersery MTV recently finished airing The Real World, DC, the twenty-third season of this long-running reality series. This past season, Ty, an African American from Baltimore, and Emily, a white…
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This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner’s complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner’s conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies…