Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Category: Articles
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Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library Libraries & the Cultural Record Volume 42, Number 4, 2007 pages 409-421 DOI: 10.1353/lac.2007.0068 Ethelene Whitmire, Associate Professor of Library & Information Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Chicago native Regina Anderson Andrews (1901–93) was a librarian in the New York Public Library (NYPL)…
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LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots 8Asians 2013-05-20 Shako Liu One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are…
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The Limits of Literary Realism: Of One Blood’s Post-Racial Fantasy by Pauline Hopkins Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 158-177 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0049 Melissa Asher Daniels, Assistant Professor of English University of Alabama, Birmingham Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—religious, political and social. It is…
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A Conversation with Lawrence Hill Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 5-26 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0072 Winfried Siemerling, Professor of English University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada When Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic offered an alternative account of modernity that placed transnational, black transatlantic lives and cultures at the center, Canada was not on his…
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The Place in Between: An Interview with Esi Edugyan Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 46-51 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0070 Maaza Mengiste Esi Edugyan’s 2011 Man Booker Prize finalist, Half-Blood Blues, opens with the lines, “Chip told us not to go out. Said, don’t you boys tempt the devil.” It is 1940 in Nazi-occupied Paris…
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Jean Toomer: The Fluidity of Racial Identity Face to Face: A blog from the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution 2012-07-20 Elizabeth Brevard, Intern Catalog of American Portraits National Portrait Gallery Jean Toomer / Marjorie Content / Gelatin silver print, c. 1934 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ©Susan L. Sandberg An author, philosopher, and spiritual…