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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‘Breed out the Colour’ or the Importance of Being White Australian Historical Studies Volume 33, Issue 120 (2002) pages 286-302 DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596220 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia This article examines inter-war proposals to ‘breed out the colour’ of Aborigines of mixed descent. Positioning these proposals in the context…
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New Book Explores Georgetown Inside and Out Georgetown Alumni Online Georgetown University 2010-11-2010 Historian R. Emmett Curran discusses his recently published book, a three-volume history of Georgetown that uncovers little known facts about the university. True or false? 1. In Georgetown’s first decade of existence, nearly 20 percent of its students came from outside the…
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The Born Identity Arise Magazine Issue 12 2011-09-28 Sarah Bentley Photography by Liz Johnson-Artur Thirty-six year-old Egor Belov has just told a childhood anecdote about scrubbing his face until it drew blood. He’d been playing in the snow and wanted pink cheeks like his friends. His dark complexion was never going to turn his desired…
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MixedRaceStudies.org Reaches 3,000 Posts 2011-10-03 Steven F. Riley MixedRaceStudies.org, called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical mixed-race theory,” and the recipient of other praise has reached its 3,000th post! Created in May 2009 by Steven F. Riley, this free online resource consists of links to: almost…
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Eurasian/Amerasian perspectives: Kim Lefèvre’s Métisse Blanche (White Métisse) and Kien Nguyen’s The Unwanted Asian Studies Review Volume 29, Issue 2 (2005) pages 107-122 DOI: 10.1080/10357820500221162 Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, Associate Professor of Historical and Philosophical Studies University of Melbourne This article examines the articulation of Kim Lefèvre’s and Kien Nguyen’s difficult and traumatic childhoods in…
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2010 Census Shows Black Population has Highest Concentration in the South United States Census Bureau CB11-CN.185 2011-09-29 People Who Reported as Both Black and White More than Doubled The U.S. Census Bureau released today a 2010 Census brief, The Black Population: 2010, that shows 14 percent of all people in the United States identified as…
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The Politics of Mothering in a “Mixed” Family: An Autoethnographic Exploration Identities Volume 12, Issue 4, 2005 pages 479-503 DOI: 10.1080/10702890500332642 Nora Lester Murad, Founder and Executive Director Dalia Association Interweaving excerpts from her personal journal with research and literature about mixed race, interfaith, and bicultural experience, Nora Lester Murad uses autoethnographic methods to explore…
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Brown Bag: Mixed-race tension in early America The Daily Campus: The Independent Voice of Southern Methodist University Since 1915 Dallas, Texas 2011-09-21 Logan May The struggle of mixed race families in Southwest America was a daunting issue in the early 19th century. As part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series of the Southwest, SMU Director…