Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Identity Politics, in a Brand-New Form The New York Times 2013-09-14 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent ARGUABLY, New York’s identity politics peaked in 1945. That year, William O’Dwyer, the Democratic Party machine’s mayoral favorite, was Irish and from Brooklyn. Lazarus Joseph, the candidate for comptroller, was Jewish and from the Bronx. Party leaders balanced their…
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“Squaw Men,” “Half-Breeds,” and Amalgamators: Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Attitudes Toward Indian-White Race-Mixing American Indian Culture and Research Journal Volume 15, Number 3 (1991) David D. Smits, Professor of History The College of New Jersey Indian-white biological amalgamation, whether in or out of wedlock, is a subject well calculated to evoke spirited conceptions and feelings; certainly,…
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A Black Confederate General That We Can All Embrace? Civil War Memory: Reflections of a High School History Teacher & Civil War Historian 2011-03-17 Kevin M. Levin, Instructor of American History Gann Academy, Waltham, Massachusetts I trust that after this post no one will accuse me of dismissing any and all evidence for the existence…
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Creative Media lecturer publishes new book Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2013-09-02 Sarah Mc Cann Zélie Asava, a lecturer on the BA & BA (Hons) in Video & Film Production has recently had her book—The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television—published by the Peter Lang…
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Belle: Toronto Review The Hollywood Reporter 2013-09-12 John DeFore The true story of a mixed-race child raised by British aristocrats is lightly fictionalized by Amma Asante. TORONTO — Hoping to use some Jane Austen-style courtship anxiety to lend drama to an episode in 18th-century English history that is novel enough on its own, Amma Asante’s…
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The Changing Face of America National Geographic Magazine October 2013 Special 125th Anniversary Issue: The Power of Photography Lise Funderburg Photography by Martin Schoeller Lise Funderburg is the author of Black, White, Other and Pig Candy. When asked, “What are you?” she often describes herself as a woman of some color. We’ve become a country…
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The renewed emphasis on population-specific genetic variation, exemplified most prominently by the International HapMap Project, is complicated by a longstanding, uncritical reliance on existing population categories in genetic research.