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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Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention: Call for Papers Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012-01-31 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) will be held at Barnard College in New York City on…
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New Geographic Categories Listings for MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-03-10 Steven F. Riley Over the next few days, I will be removing several frequently used geographic tags (indexed items) and converting them into categories (which are listed on the right-hand side). The current tags (that will be placed under the parent tag United States) are: Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, and…
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Métis identity matters Winnipeg Free Press 2011-02-09 Editorial The question of Métis identity has befuddled Canadians, governments and the courts ever since Louis Riel occupied Upper Fort Garry in 1869 and established a provisional government. Just who were these troublemakers, who had their own language, customs and practices, and who now claimed territorial rights? Well,…
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Exploring Prejudice, Miscegenation, and Slavery’s Consequences in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume 1, Issue 1, Article 3 (2011) 5 pages Steven Watson Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia This research paper analyzes Mark Twain’s use of racist speech and racial stereotypes in his novel Pudd’nhead Wilson. Twain has often been…
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No School Left Behind: Providing Equal Educational Opportunities: Where Have All the Lovings Gone?: The Continuing Relevance of the Movement for a Multiracial Category and Racial Classification After Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Volume 11, Number 3, Spring 2008 pages 409-452 Shalini R.…
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Am I that Race? Punjabi Mexicans and Hybrid Subjectivity, or How To Do Theory So That It Doesn’t Do You Hastings Women’s Law Journal Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer 2010) page 311-332 Falguni A. Sheth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts I. INTRODUCTION This paper explores the conceptual and…
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Reading Boddo’s Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman’s “Half-Breed” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Volume 22, Number 2 (Fall 2004) pages 87-107 Thomas C. Gannon, Associate Professor of English University of Nebraska, Lincoln Offers an extended cultural reading of Whitman’s early story “The Half-Breed,” focusing on psychosexual and post-colonial implications of the…