Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Taste, Manners, and Miscegenation: French Racial Politics in the US American Literary History Volume 19, Issue 3 (2007) pages 573-602 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajm025 Robert Fanuzzi, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English St. Johns University, Queens, New York A prequel: A French gourmand, in flight from political turmoil at home, arrives in post-Revolutionary America with a…
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Review: ‘Spit Back a Boy’ by Iain Haley Pollock BuzzleGoose.com 2011-09-01 Nick Defina A student of MIT once remarked that attending that particular institution as an undergraduate was much like taking a drink of water from a firehose. The same could be said about reading Iain Haley Pollock’s collection of blistering poems, selected by Elizabeth…
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An Interview with UW’s Lynet Uttal: Making the Asian American experience visible through learning Asian Wisconzine Volume 7, Number 9 (September 2011) Heidi M. Pascual Part 1 of 2 It was “quite an accident of fate” that Lynet Uttal became the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Asian American Studies Program. Although Uttal has been…
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The Invitation That Never Came: Mary Seacole After the Crimea History Today Volume 55, Issue 2 (2005) Helen Rappaport Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole. In the summer of 1856, after the last British troops had made their weary…
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Professor: Racial categorization remains necessary in Census Medill Washington Medill News Service Medill School, Northwestern University 2011-08-08 Angie Chung WASHINGTON—Does where we come from tell us whom we are? Why do we come in different colors? Does skin color equal race? Talking about racial issues can be a never-ending discussion. It’s complicated. The Census…
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Historical Fantasy, Speculative Realism, and Postrace Aesthetics in Contemporary American Fiction American Literary History Volume 23, Number 3 (Fall 2011) pages 574-599 E-ISSN: 1468-4365 Print ISSN: 0896-7148 Ramón Saldívar, Professor of History Stanford University Since the turn of the century, a new generation of minority writers has come to prominence whose work signals a radical…