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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Discovering the life of Afro-Germans The Philadelphia Inquirer 2012-06-06 Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer When she was growing up in Willingboro as the only child of Walter and Perrie Haymon, she felt like “a little princess.” She was the center of her parents’ lives, attended private school, and took piano and ballet lessons. But Wanda…
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What I’ve learned from living with HIV The Melissa Harris-Perry Blog 2012-07-01 Macalester College Ed. note: This is a guest column by our guest today, Christopher MacDonald-Dennis, the Dean of Multicultural Life at Macalester College. Chris normally tweets this essay out every December 1 to commemorate World AIDS Day, but was kind enough to allow…
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“You are an Anglo-Indian?” Eurasians and Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 38, Number 2 (April 2003) pages 125-145 DOI: 10.1177/00219894030382008 Loretta Mijares The term “Anglo-Indian”, emerging as early as 1806, originally referred to the British in India. In India today, however, the term is universally understood…
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A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians Ethnohistory Volume 48, Number 3 (Summer 2001) pages 473-494 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-48-3-473 Dave D. Davis University of Southern Maine Throughout the twentieth century, anthropologists and historians have regarded the Houma Indians of southern Louisiana as the descendants of the Houma Indians encountered along the Mississippi River…
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The Shadow of the Octoroon in T. E. Brown’s Christmas Rose Victorian Poetry Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2000 pages 289-298 DOI: 10.1353/vp.2000.0023 Max Keith Sutton In Impossible Purities, Jennifer Brody writes that the multiracial “woman of color” in Victorian literature “both conceals and reveals conflicting ideas of difference.” The light skin of an octoroon,…
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How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself The New York Times 2012-06-28 John Jeremiah Sullivan A poll of well over a hundred writers and critics, taken a few years back by Oxford American magazine, named William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” the “greatest Southern novel ever written,” by a decisive margin —…
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Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper American Literature Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003 pages 813-841 Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Conceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a…
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What DNA Says About Human Ancestry—and Bigotry The Village Voice 1997-10-28 pages 34-35 Mark Schoofs, Senior Editor ProPublica Race and genetics form their own double helix, twisting together through history. The Nazis, as everyone knows, justified the death camps on the grounds that Jews and Gypsies were genetically inferior—but what is less known is that…