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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Off white The Indian Express New Delhi, India 2012-05-19 Census data confirms America’s enduring ability to bring the world home The United States has crossed a demographic tipping point, driven by changes in immigration, fertility and mortality patterns. By now, more than half the babies born in the US belong to a racial or ethnic…
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Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’ Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2012-04-28 Gretchen Wenner, Staff Reporter SQUAW VALLEY — Juror No. 8 from the Rodney King beating trial has always heard the 12-member panel described as either all white or as having no blacks. Now, he wants the public to know that’s not…
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‘Beautiful Hybrids’: Caroline Gurrey’s Photographs of Hawai‘i’s Mixed-race Children History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 184-198 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654947 Anne Maxwell, Associate Professor of English University of Melbourne, Australia In the early years of the twentieth century the Hawaiian-based American photographer Caroline Gurrey produced a much praised set of the photographs of…
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Contemporary US multiple heritage couples, individuals, and families: Issues, concerns, and counseling implications Counselling Psychology Quarterly Volume 25, Issue 2, (June 2012) Special Issue: Race, Culture, and Mental Health: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond pages 99-112 DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2012.674682 Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Multicultural Education and Consulting, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Kelley…
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Rewriting a slave’s journey Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 2012-04-29 Corey Connelly In his latest publication, Caribbean History from Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present, Dr Tony Martin recaps the many social, economic and political phenomena that have shaped world history over the centuries. However, the renowned historian tackles the topics in an unapologetically fresh and detailed…
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Children of the banished dragon The Daily Post Liverpool, England 2006-01-23 Lew Baxter Lew Baxter reports on a shameful episode after World War II when Chinese sailors who had risked their lives for Britain were deported back to China, many leaving behind distraught British wives and children. Even 60 years later, tears and trauma trail…
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Eurasians: The First British Born Chinese? DimSum: The British Chinese community website 2007-06-30 Yvonne Foley I am a Eurasian. I am the daughter of an English mother and a Shanghai father. In traditional Chinese culture, having a Chinese father, I am regarded as being Chinese. I am part of a community that has been around…
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To “Flash White Light from Ebony”: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane Twentieth Century Literature Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2000) pages 1-19 Catherine Gunther Kodat, Professor of English and American Studies Hamilton College, Clinton, New York The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation–and which…