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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A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA The New York Times 2012-12-20 Jeff Z. Klein Seth Jones probably should have wound up a basketball player. He is tall, with a great vertical leap, and his father is Popeye Jones, who played 11 years in the N.B.A. and is now an assistant coach with the Nets.…
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Changing Families Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas December 2007 Caryn Aviv, Senior Instructor in Secular Jewish Society & Civilization University of Colorado, Boulder A Different Sexual Revolution The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Indiana University Press, 2007. 320 pages The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives,…
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Intermarriage and Multicultural Families My Jewish Learning 2012-12-13 Ruth Abusch-Magder, Rabbi-in-Residence Be’chol Lashon, San Francisco, California Like it or not, intermarriage is a fact in Jewish life. And for the most part the Jewish community has learned to live with it. Sure, different movements deal with it differently. Sure, some congregations are more adept and…
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The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (review) Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Volume 31, Number 1, Fall 2012 pages 206-208 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2012.0123 Andrea Levine George Washington University This volume’s title signals its central critical intervention, a challenge to the masculine biases that have shaped studies of minstrelsy and of cross-racial…
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Review: Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Southern California Quarterly Volume 94, Number 4 (Winter 2012) pages 492-494 DOI: 10.1525/scq.2012.94.4.492 Alex Jacoby Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in Sun Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 256 pp.) In the last decade there…
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Where Ethnicity Was Fluid The New York Times 2012-12-29 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent In “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America” (Harvard University Press, $35), Vivek Bald, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration:…
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Political Attitudes and Ideologies of Multiracial Americans: The Implications of Mixed Race in the United States Political Research Quarterly Volume 61, Number 2 (2008) pp. 253-267 DOI: 10.1177/1065912907313209 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University A contemporary rise in multiracial self-identification provokes a number of questions about the significance that this racial identity…
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On This Day: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement University of North Carolina 2012-12-05 Alison Shay On December 5, 1925—87 years ago today—the jury in the annulment trial Rhinelander v. Rhinelander found in favor of a mixed-race woman sued for marriage annulment by her white husband. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a wealthy white…