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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Category: Articles
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With “Symptomatic,” the follow-up to her acclaimed debut novel “Caucasia,” Danzy Senna again delves into race in America — and defies second-book syndrome
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An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror The New York Times 2016-01-06 Amanda Fortini Genevieve Gaignard, “A Golden State of Mind” installation, 2015. Credit: Eric Minh Swenson, via The Cabin LA and Diane Rosenstein LOS ANGELES — On a recent Friday afternoon, Genevieve Gaignard, a photographer, collagist and installation artist, was sitting on her…
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A Romance of (Miscege)Nations: Ann Sophia Stephens’ Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1839, 1860) Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 63, Number 1, Spring 2007 pages 1-25 DOI: 10.1353/arq.2007.0000 Yu-Fang Cho, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Miami University, Oxford, Ohio…
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Mixed but not matched: Being mixed-race in America The Daily Evergreen Washington State University Pullman, Washington 2016-01-21 Sophia Stephens, Evergreen columnist The experience of being a mixed-race person in America can be described in one word – mixed. Depending on how a mixed-race person looks and is perceived, the experience of being an ethnic or…
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What is the Defining Divide? False Post-Racial Dogmas and the Biblical Affirmation of “Race” Black Theology Volume 13, Issue 2 (August, 2015) pages 166-188 DOI: 10.1179/1476994815Z.00000000054 Kumar Rajagopalan London Baptist Association, London, United Kingdom This essay offers a critical reflection on the challenges of addressing the concept of “race,” and whether there is a post-racial…
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Law is still black & white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says University Times: The Faculty & Staff Newspaper Since 1968 University of Pittsburgh 2016-01-07 Marty Levine Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence…