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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Psychological threat experienced by students of negatively stereotyped groups impairs test performance. However, stereotype boost can also occur if a positively stereotyped identity is made salient. Biracial individuals, whose racial identities may be associated with both negative and positive testing abilities, have not been examined in this context. Sixty-four biracial Black-White individuals wrote about either…
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Multiracial kids will soon have a more colorful toy set for pretend play The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-23 Sadé Carpenter The MyFamilyBuilders toy set includes 48 magnetic wooden pieces that snap together. (MyFamilyBuilders) When Ez Karpf went shopping for a gift for his friends’ children, he thought it would be easy to find a toy set…
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Guadalupe and the Castas: The Power of a Singular Colonial Mexican Painting Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Volume 31, Number 2 pages 218-247 DOI: 10.1525/mex.2015.31.2.218 Sarah Cline, Research Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara A mid-eighteenth-century casta painting by Luis de Mena uniquely unites the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and casta (mixed-race) groupings,…
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He was a handsome holy man, an organ virtuoso, a star from the East. Korla Pandit mesmerized generations–while keeping a secret until his dying day
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Color film was built for white people. Here’s what it did to dark skin Vox 2015-09-18 Estelle Caswell The biased film was fixed in the 1990s, so why do so many photos still distort darker skin? For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply…
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Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity Canadian Journal of Communication Volume 34, Number 1 (2009) pages 111-136 Lorna Roth, Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Until recently, due to a light-skin bias embedded in colour film stock emulsions and digital camera design, the rendering of…
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Raising a Biracial Child as a Mother of Color The Atlantic 2015-09-19 Lara N. Dotson-Renta A mother’s reflection on her own childhood and that of her biracial child—and the inevitable differences of the two. A few months ago, I was walking home from the bus stop with my eldest daughter during the last week of…
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‘Remnants of Slavery’ column shows racial ignorance Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2015-09-20 Rebecca Keller O’Hara Township, Pennsylvania I’m greatly troubled by Jack Kelly’s historically flawed column “Remnants of Slavery” (Sept. 13) because it falsely enables an often unhearing percentage of the white majority to tell people of color that our modern-day experiences with racism are an illusion.…