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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Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society November 2012 Rita Kamani-Renedo Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the second biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. I was excited to return after having attended the inaugural conference in 2010. This time,…
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Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker The New York Times Magazine 2012-12-18 Andrew Goldman Your memoir made your experience growing up in Smithtown, a largely white town on Long Island, sound like a huge drag. It really wasn’t. It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community.…
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Staged Bodies: Passing, Performance, and Masquerade in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 69-91 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0062 Margaret Toth, Assistant Professor of English Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York Henry Louis Gates, Jr., claims that “one of the ironies” of the New…
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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of nineteenth-century African-American stature Journal of Population Economics Volume 24, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 1471-1491 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-010-0324-x Scott Alan Carson, Professor of Economics The University of Texas of the Permian Basin Nineteenth-century mulattos were taller than their darker-colored African-American counterparts. However, traditional explanations that attribute the…