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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Blackness in Germany: Locating “Race” in Johannes Schaaf’s 1986 Film Adaptation of Michael Ende’s Fantasy Novel Momo Focus on German Studies Volume 19 (2012) pages 133-148 Benjamin Nickl Georgetown University Michael Ende’s 1973 fantasy novel, Momo first became popular in West Germany. Decades later, the book remained successful in the unified Republic. Intended as a…
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A Tale of Two Seminole Counties Indian Voices August 2013 page 7 Phil Fixico Some coincidences can’t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both Florida’s and Oklahoma’s Seminole Counties. What does this date and these counties have in common. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born…
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How my white mother shaped me into a black man Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC 2013-08-13 Albert L. Butler, Radio Host 900 AM WURD, Philadelphia I am an avid watcher of Melissa Harris-Perry, so I was not at all surprised–and was quite pleased–when host Melissa Harris-Perry tackled the subject of white mothers raising black boys in America…
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Piesche Publishes Anthology on Audre Lorde Hamilton College, Clinton, New York College News 2012-12-02 In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s death, Visiting Instructor of German & Russian Studies Peggy Piesche published a new anthology, Eurer Schweigen nützt euch nichts: Audre Lorde und die Schwarze Frauenbewegung in Deutschland (Your Silence Will Not Protect…
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New Marker Unveiling this Saturday in Manteo! Chowan Discovery Group 2013-08-07 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director For decades, [North Carolina] NC Highway markers in Manteo have honored English exploration, the Lost Colony and Confederate forts. No reference to the local people has been acknowledged. Well, this Saturday, the first town encountered by the English, in…
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Black German culture, history highlighted at Amherst-sponsored conference Amherst College News Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts 2013-08-16 Peter Rooney, Director of Public Affairs As more African-Americans are realizing they have German roots, and as Germans expand the notion of what it means to be German, a new academic discipline dedicated to examining the Black German experience…
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Fannie’s legacy: How a mixed-race couple settled early Lake Worth The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida 2013-08-06 pages D4-D5 Scott Eyman, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer They thrived until Jim Crow laws forced them from the town. Before there was Lake Worth, there was a town called Jewell. It wasn’t a big town…
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Rereading Pauline Johnson Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 45-61 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2012.0018 Carole Gerson, Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada This essay argues for a broader appreciation of Pauline Johnson’s creative range and poetic accomplishment. Rereading her work in relation to some of J.…
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Disparity in Breast Cancer Between Black and White Women Can Be Eliminated by Regular Mammography Screening Rush University Medical Center News Release 2012-09-25 (CHICAGO) — Regular mammography screening can help narrow the breast cancer gap between black and white women, according to a retrospective study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment in August. Earlier…