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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Mixing Racial Messages Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2013-10-30 Ryan Wong Starting with its title, the group exhibition War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art at Seattle’s Wing Luke museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories? How do…
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African-Americans and Latinos: Conflict or Collaboration? Ebony Magazine 2012-09-25 Eugene Holley, Jr. As Latinos now outnumber African-Americans as this country’s largest minority, could there be a political, social and economic union with our brown brothers and sisters? In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month – which runs through October 15th – EBONY interviewed African-Americans and Hispanics…
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Black History’s Missing Chapters: ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,’ on PBS The New York Times 2013-10-18 Felicia R. Lee The television mini-series “Roots,” about the slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants, is a classic, inspired by real lives and real history. But it is a truism among historians that young people do…
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Analysis of a Tri-Racial Isolate Human Biology Volume 36, Number 4 (December 1964) pages 362-373 William S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Based on a paper presented at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia, May 2, 1962 A relatively isolated population in the state of…
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Booker Sworn In as U.S. Senator The New York Times 2013-10-31 Jennifer Steinhauer, Congressional Reporter WASHINGTON — Cory A. Booker, who gained celebrity as a danger-dodging, super-tweeting mayor of Newark, was sworn in as New Jersey’s junior United States senator on Thursday, the first African-American to be elected to the chamber since Barack Obama in…
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Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay’s Narratives of Transracial Desire Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 7 (October 2013) pages 706-724 DOI: 10.1177/0021934713507579 Smita Das, 2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow University of Illinois, Chicago This article explores the threat posed by the Afro-Asian body in Claude McKay’s novels, Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933). Banjo’s narrative of transracial…
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Biracial Costa Ricans worse off than black Ticos, says UNPD report The Tico Times San José, Costa Rica 2013-10-30 Zach Dyer Fewer than 10 percent of Ticos with one white and one black parent attend university, compared to more than 17 percent of self-identified black Costa Ricans. Biracial Costa Ricans struggle with higher rates of…
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Unbecoming blackness: the diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America [Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 5, 2014 pages 889-890 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.847200 Nora Gámez Torres, Visiting scholar Cuban Research Institute Florida International University, Miami Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America, by Antonio López, New York, New York University Press, 2012, xi + 272…
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Loving v. Virginia (No. 395): 206 Va. 924, 147 S.E.2d 78, reversed. Waren, C.J., Opinion of the Court, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 388 U.S. 1, Loving v. Virginia Appeal from the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia No. 395 Argued: April 10, 1967 Decided: June 12, 1967 Source: Legal Information Institute, Cornell University…