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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Betwixt and Between: Embracing the Borderlands of My Mixed Heritage Discover Nikkei 2013-01-23 Mari L’Esperance For weeks I resisted beginning work on this essay. Then, synchronistically, I encountered two pieces at Discover Nikkei that helped me get started. The first was Nancy Matsumoto’s excellent review (December 26, 2012) of Nikkei/Hapa psychologist Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu’s latest book…
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Clearly Invisible, by Marcia Alesan Dawkins The Christian Century: Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully. 2013-01-23 Rachel Stone The one time I visited my maternal grandfather’s house, we had planned to stay four days. I was ten and had seen my grandfather just once before in my life. I don’t recall if he ever spoke to me,…
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Hybrid Identity: Family, Photography and History in Colonial Indonesia Undergraduate Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies Volume 1, Issue 1 (2012) 15 pages Sani Montclair Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of California, Berkeley As members of my family lose memories and pass away, I desire to take an even tighter grip on their…
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Methodologies of Socio-Cultural Classification: Contexutalizing the Casta Painting (1710-1800) as a Product of Time Undergraduate Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies Volume 1, Issue 1 (2012) 17 pages Pooja Chaudhuri University of California, Berkeley The “casta painting” appeared in the early 18th century Colonial Mexico (New Spain). The paintings illustrated different offspring produced from sexual…
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Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies The Miami Herald 2013-01-21 Freida Frisaro, Associated Press MIAMI — Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, has died. He was 87. His son said Massaquoi died Saturday, on…