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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A Recovered Early Letter by Charles Chesnutt American Literary Realism Volume 40, Number 2 (Winter, 2008) pages 180-182 DOI: 10.1353/alr.2008.0006 Randall Gann University of New Mexico In the preface to the first volume of their edition of Charles Chesnutt’s letters, Joseph McElraih and Robert Leitz III contend that Chesnutt “was among the most visible figures…
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A First Time for Everything The New York Times Magazine The Lives They Lived 2011-12-22 Isabel Wilkerson While poring over the Web site Legacy.com to prepare this issue, we noticed a trend. A search of the site’s database — which includes obituaries from more than 750 newspapers across the country—turned up hundreds of obits published…
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’Marginal Whiteness California Law Review Volume 98, Number 5 (October 2010) pages 1497-1594 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California How are whites injured by minority-targeted racism? Prior to filing her Title VII interracial solidarity claim, Betty Clayton thought she knew. For years, Clayton, a white cafeteria worker employed by the…
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Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-Race People California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 1233-1291 Kenneth E. Payson Introduction “What are you?” As the child of a Japanese mother and a White father, I have often been asked this question. While I am also male, heterosexual,…
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“I Was Black When It Suited Me; I Was White When It Suited Me”: Racial Identity in the Biracial Life of Marguerite Davis Stewart Journal of American Ethnic History Volume 26, Number 4, Women’s Voices, Ethnic Lives through Oral History (Summer, 2007) pages 24-49 A. Glenn Crothers University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Tracy E. K’Meyer,…
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Behind the Lines—Marquerite Davis Louisville Magazine November 2006 Bruce M. Tyler, Associate Professor of History University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky The writer, an associate professor of history at the University of Louisville and author of Louisville in World War II (Arcadia Publishing, 2005), became intrigued by the role African-Americans played during the transformation of Bowman…
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Michelle Cliff and the Authority of Identity The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Volume 28, Number 1, Identities (Spring, 1995) pages 56-70 Sally O’Driscoll, Associate Professor of English Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut Michelle Cliff has gained critical acclaim as a novelist in the United States and England; her position as an expatriate Jamaican…
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Creole Is, Creole Ain’t: Diachronic and Synchronic Attitudes toward Creole Identity in Southern Louisiana Language in Society Volume 29, Number 2 (June, 2000) pages 237-258 Sylvie Dubois, Gabriel Muir Professor of French Studies Louisiana State University Megan Melançon, Associate Professor of English Georgia College Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups…
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Decoding E. Shockley’s “mesostics from the american grammar book” Pt. 2 SIUE Black Studies Blog Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 2011-10-13 Cindy Lyles Alongside [Evie] Shockley’s bold choice to write a poem using only names of black women, her stanza construction also makes a daring statement in “mesostics for the american grammar book.” The names are…