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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José Maurício Nunes Garcia Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Last modified: 2015-12-08 José Maurício Nunes Garcia (September 20, 1767 – April 18, 1830) was a Brazilian classical composer, one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas. Born in Rio de Janeiro, son of mulattos, Nunes Garcia lost his father at an early age, and…
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Going Silent: Augusta Chiwy (B. 1921) The Lives They Lived (2015) The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-16 Ruth Padawer, Adjunct Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York, New York Augusta Chiwy as a nursing student, front row center, at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Leuven, Belgium, in 1943. Credit: Photograph from Martin King She saw so…
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Catherine Bliss Examines Race and Science in the Post-Genomic World Science of Caring: A Publication of the UCSF School of Nursing University of California, San Francisco December 2015 Diana Austin Catherine Bliss (photo by Elisabeth Fall) When Catherine Bliss, assistant professor in the UC San Francisco School of Nursing Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,…
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Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2015-03-19 Annina Chirade I was born in Vienna, a place which has historically been a frontier between Eastern and Western Europe. I was primarily brought up in London, a city whose population reflects the reaches of the British Empire. It is also the place…
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Augusta Chiwy, ‘Forgotten’ Wartime Nurse, Dies at 94 The New York Times 2015-08-25 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent Augusta Chiwy was honored in 2011 for saving Americans during World War II. Credit Eric Lalmand/European Pressphoto Agency Augusta Chiwy, a Belgian nurse whose unsung bravery in saving countless American soldiers wounded in the Battle of the…
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Biological races in humans Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2013 Pages 262–271 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.04.010 Alan R. Templeton, Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology Emeritus Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Highlights Races are highly genetically…
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Why Your Race Isn’t Genetic Pacific Standard 2014-05-30 Michael White, Assistant Professor of Genetics Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri DNA doesn’t determine race. Society does. If you glanced around the room at a conference of geneticists, it would be easy to guess where in the world all the attendees’ ancestors came from.…
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Can we choose our racial identities? Should we? Quartz 2015-12-18 Marcie Bianco One human race, divided. (Fanqiao Wang) Can we choose our racial identities? Should we? In 2015, race as an identity has seemed more malleable than ever. As Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown, wrote in this week’s New York Times Magazine, Americans will…
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico by Ileana Rodríguez-Silva (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 655-657 Isar Godreau, Researcher Interdisciplinary Research Institute University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico (London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,…