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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Empire, Race, and the Debate over the Indian Marriage Market in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2014 pages 427-454 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2014.0004 John C. Leffel, Assistant Professor of English State University of New York, Cortland In the late eighteenth century, East India Company stations were characterized as…
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When it Comes to Diversity, Who Counts? The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-03-26 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan When talking diversity at colleges and universities, the numbers count. Still, when it comes to mixed-race students, too often they do not count…
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[This short paper was originally written for “Jean Toomer and Politics,” a Special Session Roundtable at the 2012 MLA Conference in Seattle. I have made a few edits.]
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Jane Bolin, the Country’s First Black Woman to Become a Judge, Is Dead at 98 The New York Times 2007-01-10 Douglas Martin Jane Bolin, whose appointment as a family court judge by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1939 made her the first black woman in the United States to become a judge, died on…
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Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides Salon Wednesday, 2014-03-12 Eternity E. Martis London, Ontario, Canada People can’t seem to understand that I’m not either black or Anglo-Pakistani, but all of the above My mother is Anglo-Pakistani and my father is Jamaican (and a quarter Chinese). I grew up with my…
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Butterfield featured on ‘Colbert Report’ The Wilson Times Wilson, North Carolina Tuesday, 2014-03-25 Corey Friedman, Times Online Editor Comic pundit Stephen Colbert argued Obamacare and the Racial Justice Act with U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield while bashing North Carolina barbecue in a playful segment spotlighting Wilson’s congressional district. Butterfield, a Democrat representing the state’s 1st District,…
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Playing Chinese Whispers: The Official ‘Gossip’ of Racial Whitening in Jorge Amado’s Tenda dos Milagres Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2014 pages 196-211 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqu006 Helen Lima de Sousa, Santander Post-Doctoral Senior Studentship in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies Clare College, University of Cambridge This article explores the possible inauthentic…
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Before Green and Bouchet, another African American Yale College grad. Maybe. Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-03-07 Mark Alden Branch ’86 Just last Friday, we told you that the first African American to graduate from Yale College was not Edward Bouchet in 1874, but Richard Henry Green in 1857. Since then, though, we’ve been reminded of two…