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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The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. [González Review] H-Net Reviews February, 2012 Fredy González Yale University Robert Chao Romero. The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. xii + 254 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-2772-4. Moving across the Transnational Commercial Orbit Robert Chao Romero’s The Chinese in Mexico, the first English-language monograph on the subject,…
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Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 4, Number 1 (2012) 15 pages Jeffrey H. Gray, Professor of English Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Originally published as Jeffrey Gray, “Essence and the Mulatto Traveler: Europe as Embodiment in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand,”…
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Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico Silicon Valley Mercury News 2012-11-24 Olga R. Rodriguez, Mexican Correspondent Associated Press MEXICO CITY—Juan Chiu Trujillo was 5 years old when he left his native Mexico for a visit to his father’s hometown in southern China. He was 35 when he returned. As Chiu vacationed with his parents, brother and…
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The Mischling Experience in Oral History The Oral History Review Volume 35, Issue 2 (2008) pages 139-158 DOI: 10.1093/ohr/ohn025 Peter Monteath, Associate Professor of History Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia This paper examines the usefulness of oral history in dealing with the fate of the so-called Mischlinge in Nazi Germany; that is, people categorized by the…
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Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (2010) 18 pages Konomi Ara Tokyo University of Foreign Studies This excerpt is from her newly-published biography of Josephine Baker, “A Fighting Diva.” It tells the intriguing story of Baker’s travels to Japan, her close friendship with the Japanese…
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American Voters Are Getting All Mixed Up Dog Park: Media Unleased 2012-11-20 Leighton Woodhouse, Founding Partner As anybody with a TV, radio or newspaper subscription can affirm, the big story coming out of the 2012 election is the long feared/eagerly awaited arrival of the Latino Vote as a national political force capable of deciding a…
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Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic The Journal of Transnational American Studies ISSN 1940-0764 Volume 1, Issue 1 (2009) Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, the forthcoming book from which this article is excerpted, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the…
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Reviving Native Culture and Tradition with the Help of Elders – A Study of Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed The Criterion: An International Journal in English Volume III, Issue III (September 2012) 8 pages ISSN 0976-8165 A. Kamaleswari, Assistant Professor of English Saiva Bhanu Kshatriya (S. B. K.) College, Aruppukottai, India Elders should be role models for…
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Deconstructing Race: Gobinism and Miscegenation in Pearl S. Buck The Criterion: An International Journal in English Volume III, Issue II (June 2012) 8 pages ISSN 0976-8165 Aysha Munira The 17th and 18th centuries saw the emergence of the idea of race, along with the rise of colonialism and transatlantic slave trade. By the end of…
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Coloured Members of the Bahamian House of Assembly in the Nineteenth Century College of the Bahamas Research Journal Volume 10 (2001) Rosalyn Themistocleous This article focuses on some little known ‘coloured’ members of the House of Assembly of the nineteenth century. The position of the Bahamians of mixed race is discussed, particularly vis-à-vis the white…