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 Hybridity Revolution Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 2012-05-31 Michelle La Flamme Adebe DeRango-Adem (Editor) and Andrea Thompson (Editor), Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out. Societies that pride themselves on an imagined monoracial norm have rare glimpses into the multi-racial experience. The contemporary literary phenomenon some refer to as the “boom…
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White Yet Non-White: Miscegenation in Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard (2007) American Studies Today Online Volume 19, (2012) 2012-05-30 ISSN: 2044-804X Sofia Politidou Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece This article examines the changes in the concept of miscegenation, from the slavery years to the 1960s and the 2000s, as recorded in Natasha Trethewey’s Pulitzer Prize poetry collection…
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Ancestry isn’t the issue in Warren race Concord Monitor Concord, New Hampshire 2012-06-04 Monitor staff The flap over Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry would be a tempest in a teepee if, that is, the Cherokee she claimed to be on some college forms lived in teepees, which they didn’t. The…
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Germany gets first ever black mayor The Local: Germany’s News in English Berlin, Germany 2012-06-02 John Ehret, a black German who used to work for the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, is Germany’s first black mayor. The 40-year-old Ehret, whose father was an African-American soldier and mother a native German, took over running…
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The Myth of Native American Blood The Hyphenated Life The Boston Globe 2012-06-01 Francie Latour The African-American grandmother of a friend of mine once summed up the laws that govern black identity in this country. “If you ever want to know if someone’s black or not,” she would say, “go ask their white neighbor.” That…
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Portland Chapter Member: Dmae Roberts Asian American Journalists Association 2012-05-28 Doris Truong Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody Award-winning radio artist/writer whose work airs regularly on NPR. Her work is often autobiographical and cross-cultural and is informed by her biracial identity. Her Peabody award-winning documentary, “Mei Mei: A Daughter’s Song,” is a harrowing account of…
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Elizabeth Warren: Box-Checking for Fun and Profit Indican Country Today Media Network 2012-05-16 Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University Forrest Carter, Carlos Castaneda, Ward Churchill, Iron Eyes Cody, Jamake HIghwater, Nasdijj, Princess Pale Moon, Andrea and Justine Smith, Mary Thunder, Dhyani Ywahoo. Some of these people have done good work; others have…