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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Figuring Abjection: The Slave Mother in the Early Creole Novel French Studies Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2013 pages 61-75 DOI: 10.1093/fs/kns232 Maeve McCusker School of Modern Languages Queen’s University Belfast While twentieth-century Caribbean literature in French has generated a substantial body of criticism, earlier writings have largely been neglected. This article begins by contextualizing…
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Regular screening mammography before the diagnosis of breast cancer reduces black:white breast cancer differences and modifies negative biological prognostic factors Breast Cancer Research and Treatment Volume 135, Number 2 (2012) pages 549-553 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2193-3 Paula Grabler Feinberg College of Medicine Northwestern University Danielle Dupuy Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Taskforce, Chicago, Illinois Jennifer Rai University of…
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Michele Elam: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Johnson Review] New Books in African American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of African Americans about Their New Books 2012-10-31 Sherry Johnson, Assistant Professor of English Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan “What are you?” The question can often comes out…
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Gender and the Neighborhood Location of Mixed-Race Couples Demography DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0158-0 Published Online: 2012-10-17 Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Gender asymmetry in mixed-race heterosexual partnerships and marriages is common. For instance, black men marry or partner…
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Mixed Race Issues to be Examined at DePaul University Forum DePaul University News Release 2012-10-29 As Americans of mixed racial ancestry continue to grow in number and diversity, the demographic, social, political and cultural implications for the country become more complex. These issues will be examined from a variety of perspectives at a groundbreaking conference…
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Race in a Bottle Scientific American Volume 297 (January 1, 2007) pages 40-45 Jonathan D. Kahn, Professor of Law Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science. This article focuses on the drug, BiDil – a drug…
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Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The question posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native American” at various…
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Research Matters June 27, 2012 USC Dornsife Research Office Weekly Updates University of Southern California 2012-06-27 Stephan Haas, Vice Dean of Research Awards This information is based upon official award data from the Contracts and Grants office. It is provided to make you aware of the interesting research that is being conducted by our colleagues…