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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In the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. physical anthropologists imagined Hawai‘i as a racial laboratory, a controllable site for the study of race mixing and the effects of migration on bodily form. Gradually a more dynamic and historical understanding of human populations came to substitute for older classificatory and typological approaches in the colonial laboratory, leading…
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My Transnational, Hapa Identity in Question Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-02-19 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University I like to say that I have a transnational, multicultural, multiethnic identity. I am hapa, haafu, I am both/and, Japanese AND American. But I know that many others still see the world in dichotomies, as either/or, Japanese OR American. I know…
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Claudia Unterweger – Austria’s first black News presenter Afro-Europe: International Blog 2012-02-18 ©ORF (Ali Schafler) Claudia Unterweger (39) is the first black TV News presenter in Austria. She was born to an African-American father and an Austrian mother. Since February 2011 she is one of the News presenters of “Zib-flash”, a program of the Austrian…
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Election of the first black mayor Daily Mail 1913-11-10 Source: mytimemachine.co.uk Coloured Mayor—Majority of One at Battersea—Dramatic Speech For the first time in the history of this country a man of colour has been elected mayor of a borough. The honour has fallen to Mr. John Richard Archer, a photographer, of Battersea Park-Road, who by…
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Pain of ‘Trail of Tears’ shared by Blacks as well as Native Americans Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-02-25 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s Note: Tiya Miles is chairwoman of the Department of Afro-American and…
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The Absurdity of America: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More EnterText: an interdisciplinary humanities e-journal Volume 1, Number 1 (Winter 2000) Americas, Americans pages 127-148 Joseph Mills, Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professor of the Humanities North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at…
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Portrait of Crimean War Nurse Mary Seacole Acquired by National Portrait Gallery artdaily.org 2012-02-12 Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen, 1869. ©National Portrait Gallery, London. LONDON.- The only known painting of Mary Seacole, the black Victorian nurse regarded as one of the most significant figures to emerge from the Crimean War, is to remain at…
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Spoilt for choice? New Law Journal: Leading on debate, litigation & dispute resolution Vol 162, Issue 7498 2012-01-26 Adrian Jack, Barrister & Rechtsanwalt Enterprise Chambers Encouraging greater judicial diversity is no easy task, says Adrian Jack The government is consulting on creating greater diversity in the judiciary. Where candidates for judicial appointment are of similar…
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Obituaries: Fredi Washington, 90, Actress; Broke Ground for Black Artists The New York Times 1994-06-30 Sheila Rule Fredi Washington, one of the first black actresses to gain recognition for her work on stage and in film, died on Tuesday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Stamford, Conn., where she lived. She was 90. The cause…