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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Auschwitz to Rwanda: The link between science, colonialism and genocide Mail & Guardian Africa Johannesburg, South Africa 2017-02-01 Heike Becker Sixty years later, the recurrent connections of science and genocide still demonstrate the dark underbelly of Western modernity in Africa, Europe, and the world. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly) Significant links connect racial science in colonial southern Africa…
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On the Precipice of a “Majority-Minority” America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans’ Political Ideology Psychological Science Volume 25, Issue 6 (2014-06-01) pages 1189-1197 DOI: 10.1177/0956797614527113 Maureen A. Craig, Assistant Professor of Psychology New York University Jennifer A. Richeson, Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology Yale University The U.S. Census…
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Construction of Race and Class Buffers in the Structure of Immigration Controls and Laws Oregon Law Review Volume 76 (1997) pages 731-764 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University In the midst of current anti-immigration sentiment, which is motivating dramatic changes in the United States immigration laws, there exists the myth that prior immigration…
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Why white liberals need to figure out how to talk about race KUOW.org: 94.9 FM, Seattle News & Information 2017-01-06 By Katherine Banwell & Jamala Henderson Professor Ralina Joseph at the University of Washington says to just start talking about race. University of Washington Why is race so hard to discuss? Ralina Joseph, founding director…
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The ‘Failed’ Project of Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican Discourse A Contra corriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America Volume 5, Number 3, Spring 2008 pages 243-251 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington Escritura afropuertorriqueña y modernidad (2007),…
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Defined by mixed race The Globe & Mail 2017-01-23 Mckenzie Small Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Differences make you stand out, Mckenzie Small writes, and it’s something to be proud of She just keeps staring at me – as if I’m from another dimension – and then she asks the all-too-familiar question: “So what are you, exactly?” I…