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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Thanks, Belle, it’s nice to see a face like mine on screen The Guardian (The Observer) 2014-06-07 Ashley Clark In giving top billing to Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the film Belle makes a real contribution to raising awareness of the mixed-race experience My heart leaps whenever I see the poster for Amma Asante’s new film, Belle, high…
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The Perceptions of Race That Hinge on Stress The Atlantic 2014-06-09 Olga Khazan, Associate Editor A new study found that when resources were scarce, white people had different definitions of “black” and were less generous toward people with darker skin tones than toward people with lighter skin. The Labor Department said on Friday that employers…
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Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2000) pages 19–29 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2000.9.2.19 Diana Smay Emory University George Armelago, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropolgy (1936-2014) Emory University Anthropology has been haunted by the misuse of the race concept since its beginnings. Although…
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When One Of New York’s Glitterati Married A ‘Quadroon’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-07 Theodore R. Johnson III Coverage of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s recent nuptial ceremony was only remarkable in what most reporters left out: he’s black, and she isn’t. The generalized lack of interest in…
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Race: A Starting Place Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 16, Number 6 (June 2014) pages 472-478 Brooke A. Cunningham, MD, PhD Health status, access to and quality of care, and numerous social factors associated with health vary across racial groups. Many applaud the collection and use of race data to identify…
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Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. [Orihuela] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Published Online: 2014-06-05 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu027 Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. Charlottesville: University…