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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Hapa-Palooza challenges mixed-race stereotypes The Vancouver Sun 2011-09-07 Vivian Luk, Special To The Sun ‘We’re 100-per-cent whole, we’re Canadian,’ says filmmaker who faced identity struggles and discrimination while growing up The nickname Super Nip – partly derived from a Second World War term to describe Japanese people – and racial jokes followed Jeff Chiba Stearns…
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Caught up in a scientific racism designed to breed out the black The Sydney Morning Herald 2008-02-14 Debra Jopson She was removed as a toddler and raped as a ward of the state. Valerie Linow knows only too well the tragedy of assimilation policy, writes Debra Jopson. The stolen child Valerie Linow is certain she…
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Variability in Race Hybrids American Anthropologist Volume 40, Issue 4 (October-December 1938) pages 680–697 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1938.40.4.02a00090 Wilson D. Wallis In his revised edition of The Mind of Primitive Man, Professor Boas warns against assuming “on the basis of a low variability that a type is pure, for we know that some mixed types are remarkably…
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Ambiguous Belongings: Negotiating Hybridity in Cape Town, 1940s-1990s Kronos: Journal of Cape History Number 25, Pre-millennium issue (1998/1999) pages 227-238 Sean Field University of Cape Town You know you are in-between. You, you don’t fit with the Africans. You don’t fit with the coloureds. You live a normal life, but, you know you don’t fit…
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Protest and Accommodation: Ambiguities in the Racial Politics of the APO, 1909-1923 Kronos: Journal of Cape History Number 20 (November 1993) pages 92-106 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies University of Cape Town Historical writing on the coloured community of South Africa has tended to accept coloured identity as given and to portray it…
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More metro Atlantans say they’re multiracial: Fast-growing segment represents a cultural shift that’s nationwide Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2011-09-03 Bo Emerson When Evelyn Brown-Wilder was growing up in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the 1950s, life was a matter of warring opposites. Though some of her ancestors were white and her face was pale, the law said she was…