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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Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil Vanity Fair September 2016 Charles Bolden, Administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Katherine Johnson, photographed at Fort Monroe, in Hampton, Virginia. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a…
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Nicholas Guyatt’s ‘Bind Us Apart’ Book Reviews The New York Times 2016-04-29 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York BIND US APART How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation By Nicholas Guyatt Illustrated. 403 pp. Basic Books. $29.99. Half a century ago, inspired by the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown…
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What Is Monoracial Privilege? (Hint: If You Are One Race Only You’ve Got It…) Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-17 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom The definition of the word monoracial is to be ‘composed of or involving members of one race only’. Monoracial privilege therefore refers to the advantages and benefits that come with…
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The Dougla Defect Without Wax 2013-12-15 Sara Bharrat Dougla Defect? Indian speaks to a Dougla woman about her Dougla baby Indian: The baby getting nice now. Now he complexion comin’ lil clear. —(Rochelle Etwaroo photo and testimony) For Rochelle Etwaroo: the hybrid of two great people and a seed of hope. The Dougla Defect is…
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“Not a Moor exactly”: Shakespeare, Serial, and Modern Constructions of Race Shakespeare Quarterly Volume 67, Number 1, 2016 pages 30-50 DOI: 10.1353/shq.2016.0009 Vanessa Corredera, Assistant Professor of English Andrews University, Berrien Springs Michigan As scholars of early modern literature know, Renaissance constructions of alterity were inconsistent and varied. This critical consensus regarding the fluidity of…
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The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 73, Number 3, July 2016, 3rd series pages 427-466 Rebecca Earle, Professor School of Comparative American Studies University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American…
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‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…
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Raising My Black Son Brian, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers 2016-08-09 Suanne Schafer Twenty years ago, I adopted an interracial child—I’ll call him M—thinking a mother’s love could overcome all barriers, even racial ones. Twenty years later, I’m not sure I did my son any favors. I’m a white mom trying to figure out…
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‘Blasian Narratives’ struggles with the question: Black enough? Asian enough? Kore Asian Media 2016-08-16 Tae Hong “Blasian Narratives” performs inside Stanford Theatre. (Harrison Troung/Courtesy photo) Teaching third graders in an underserved area of Brooklyn, Cenisa Gavin often looks out at her mostly black and Latino students and is reminded of the failings of her own…