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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Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven The New York Times 2009-04-02 Felicia R. Lee Haydn almost certainly encountered him as a child in a Hungarian castle, where the boy’s father was a servant and Haydn was the director of music, and Thomas Jefferson saw him performing in Paris in 1789: a 9-year-old biracial violin prodigy…
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Are You Sensitive to Interracial Children’s Special Identity Needs? Young Children Volume 42, Number 2 (January 1987) pages 53-59 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Early childhood educators continually adjust to families they serve. Educators must provide for children not living with their natural parents, children from abusive families, children who rarely see their…
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The Time of the Multiracial American Literary History Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 549-556 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajv026 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Habiba Ibrahim is the author of Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (2012). Her current book project, Oceanic Lifespans, examines how…
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Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches The Independent 2015-09-02 Jessica Duchen Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music…
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Adolescent Racial Identity: Self-Identification of Multiple and “Other” Race/Ethnicities Urban Education Published online before print: 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/0042085915574527 Bryn Harris, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Colorado, Denver Russell D. Ravert, Associate Professor Department of Human Development & Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Amanda L. Sullivan, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis…