Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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‘Brother Mine’ highlights unique relationships The Oakland Post: Oakland University’s Independent Newspaper Rochester, Michigan 2011-02-08 Ryan Hegedus Reading other peoples’ mail can land you in serious trouble with the government. Or, in the case of Dr. Kathleen Pfeiffer, it can land you a book deal. Pfeiffer, an associate professor of English at Oakland…
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“Cane”, Race, and “Neither/Norism” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 32, Number 2 (Spring, 2000) pages 90-101 Charles Harmon “My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine.” —Jean Toomer to Horace Liveright Of all people, Jean Toomer wrote Cane. For a long time, this fact has made critics…
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Penn mutliheritage organization experiences re-birth The Daily Pennsylvanian 2012-04-06 Diana Gonimah Mixed ethnicity students met to discuss their experiences and Check One’s future Last night, Penn students came together over their ability to check more than one box under “Ethnicity” on their college applications. College junior Chris Cruz and Engineering sophomore Ibrahim Ayub hosted a…
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New group aims to create a space for biracial students Kansas State Collegian 2012-02-14 Jakki Thompson, Assistant News Editor K-State recently welcomed The Association of Multiracial Biracial Students, an organization for students of mixed races and ethnicities, to campus. AMBS is the first organization of its kind on campus and was founded by Clayton Patrick,…
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How Culture and Science Make Race “Genetic”: Motives and Strategies for Discrete Categorization of the Continuous and Heterogeneous Literature and Medicine Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 240–268 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0000 Celeste Condit, Distinguished Research Professor University of Georgia Scientists, medical personnel, and others have recently re-asserted the equivalence of human genetic variation and social…
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An educational defense for multiracial identity San Francisco Chronicle 2001-07-25 Kimberly Cooper-Plaszewski Celebrate rather than assimilate biracial heritages U.S. CENSUS 2000 marked the first time in history that multiracial people were given the “option” to specify more than one race to describe their racial identity. On the surface, this alternative may give the impression…
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In Mixed Company: Multiracial academics, advocates and artists gather for Hapa Japan Conference Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanese American News & Culture 2011-05-26 Alec Yoshio MacDonald, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor As a graduate student in UCLA’s psychology department during the late 1970s, Christine Iijima Hall absorbed scathing criticism about her dissertation. Fellow academics…