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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Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed Appalachian Journal Volume 11, Number 3 (Spring 1984) pages 201-213 David Henige University of Wisconsin, Madison Beginnings have an irritating but essential fragility and one that should be taken to heart by all who occupy themselves with history. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin There are…
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The New Black The National Post Toronto, Canada The Afterword: Postings from the literary world 2012-02-03 Donna Bailey Nurse The day after the Giller Awards I had breakfast with a friend at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. The ceremony had been held there the night before and as I savoured my bagel and lox…
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The Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal Current Anthropology Volume 53, Number S5, April 2012 13 pages Gonçalo Santos, Senior Research Fellow Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung In this article I analyze the emergence of the field of physical anthropology in the metropolitan academic sphere of the Portuguese Empire during the late nineteenth century.…
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Making Güeras: Selling white identities on late-night Mexican television Gender, Place and Culture Volume 12, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 71–93 DOI: 10.1080/09663690500082984 Jamie Winders, Associate Professor of Geography Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York John Paul Jones III, Professor of Geography and Development University of Arizona, Tucson Michael James Higgins (1946-2011), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology…
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Art Review: A Life of Marital Bliss (Segregation Laws Aside) The New York Times 2012-01-26 Martha Schwendener What’s the difference between a political activist and a political hero? It’s often a matter of intention versus accident. Within the civil rights movement Rosa Parks is seen as an activist: She trained at the Highlander Folk School…