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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Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change Critical Arts Volume 25, Issue 3 (2011) Special Issue: The Afropessimism Phenomenon pages 360-376 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2011.615140 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing…
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Comparative studies of full and mixed blood North Dakota Indians Psychological Monographs Volume 50, Number 5 (1938) pages 116-129 DOI: 10.1037/h0093522 C. W. Telford The early comparative studies of Indian-white mixtures in America uniformly reported superior mental test performances of mixed as compared with full blood Indians. The tests used in these investigations were principally…
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Test performance of full and mixed-blood North Dakota Indians Journal of Comparative Psychology Volume 14, Number 1 (August 1932) pages 123-145 DOI: 10.1037/h0069966 C. W. Telford 225 Indian pupils scattered through the kindergarten to the sixth grade, inclusive, were given the Goodenough intelligence test. The average IQ of the Indian children was 88, as compared with…
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The threat of ‘woolly-haired grandchildren’: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism The History of the Family Volume 14, Issue 4 (2009-10-26) The Domestic Frontier: European Colonialism, Nationalism and the Family Pages 356-368 DOI: 10.1016/j.hisfam.2009.08.002 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in International History Flinders University, Australia The German colonial world was marked by an ostensibly…
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Desdemona’s Fire – Review African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 342-343 Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Ruth Ellen Kocher. Desdemona’s Fire. Detroit: Lotus P, 1999. 62 pp. This shapely first collection, 1999 winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, rises with…