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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Yellow Rose of Texas The Handbook of Texas Online Texas State Historical Association 2012-01-21 Jeffrey D. Dunn James Lutzweiler “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” one of the iconic songs of modern Texas and a popular traditional American tune, has experienced several transformations of its lyrics and periodic revivals in popularity since its appearance in the…
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It’s been a good year for Bend’s MOsley WOtta. The hip-hop group played shows around the state, opening for acts such as Ice Cube and Tricky. The band plans to close out this year with a New Year’s Eve show in Bend. That’s where the band will unveil its third official release, titled Amalgum X.…
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President Alexandre Pétion: Founder of Agrarian Democracy in Haiti and Pioneer of Pan-Americanism Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 2, Number 3 (Third Quarter, 1941) pages 205-213 Dantès Bellegarde (1877-1966) [Biography in French] The history of Haiti is dominated by four great men who fought and worked for its independence: Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines, Christophe and Pétion. Toussaint is the…
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Mixed-race Rose contestant snubs racist websites Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland 2008-08-03 Ken Sweeney A mixed-race contestant who is competing in this year’s Rose of Tralee says she has no fears about travelling to Ireland to take part in the contest despite a series of racist remarks made against her on a website. London Rose Belinda…
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With DNA Testing, Suddenly They Are Family The New York Times 2011-01-24 Rachel L. Swarns ST. LOUIS — Growing up, Khrys Vaughan always believed that she had inherited her looks and mannerisms from her father, and that her appreciation for tradition and old-fashioned gentility stemmed from her parents’ Southern roots. But those facets of her…
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Developing identity formation and self-concept in preschool-aged biracial children Early Child Development and Care Volume 111, Issue 1, 1995 (Special Issue: Focus on Caregivers) pages 141-152 DOI: 10.1080/0300443951110110 Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Eleven mothers of biracial preschool-aged children were interviewed regarding identity formation, self-concept development,…
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Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain University of Leicester Press Release 2007-01-24 Research reveals African origins in the UK and US New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst “indigenous” British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their…
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Racial Socialization in Cross-Racial Families Journal of Black Psychology Published Online: 2011-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/0095798411416457 Cyndy R. Snyder University of California, Berkeley The purpose of this study was to investigate how multiracial people of African descent experience racism in schools and to understand how their parents or guardians prepare them to cope with incidents of racism…
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Don’t box us in Focus Rutgers University 2008-04-09 Ashanti M. Alvarez Prompted by Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, The New York Times recently tackled the issue of mixed-race Americans, and did so by profiling a group of students from Rutgers. I read with interest, as I myself am mixed. Common constructs abound in this article,…