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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Exploring Gloria Anzaldúa’s Methodology in Borderlands/La Frontera—The New Mestiza Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge Volume IV, Special Issue, Summer 2006 pages 87-94 ISSN: 1540-5699 Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Boston Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera—The New Mestiza does not fit into the usual critical categories simply because she follows…
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Only Skin Deep? The Harm of Being Born a Different Colour to One’s Parents: A (a minor) and B (a minor) by C (their mother and next friend) v A Health and Social Services Trust [2010] NIQB 108; [2011] NICA 28 Medical Law Review Volume 19, Issue 4 (Autumn 2011) pages 657-668 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwr029 Sally…
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Commentary: Debating Coloured Identity in the Western Cape African Security Review Volume 14, Number 4 (2005) pages 118-119 Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow Security Sector Governance Programme Institute of Security Studies, (Tshwane) Pretoria The nature and form of coloured identity in the Western Cape has been vociferously debated. Coloured identity became a particular concern after…
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Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national…
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The authors argue that the application of critical methods to fragments in successive discursive formations, including oral traditions, double meanings, epithets, fictions, and fantasies, reveal that Americans have always almost known of their biracial heritage. This re-examination of archival evidence in conjunction with critiques of novels, neologisms, and epithets enables the authors to reinterpret narratives…
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‘The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood’: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 37, Issue 4 (December 2011) pages 731-745 DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2011.613691 Daniel McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy…