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 Grays in a Black-and-White World Miller-McCune 2011-07-19 Julia M. Klein Two new books explore the intersection of race and identity in America by investigating families whose biracial members might—or might not—“pass” as white. Defining racial identity in the United States has always been a fraught enterprise, involving shifting intersections of law, custom, class, ancestry…
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Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific Between the Wars Australian Historical Studies Volume 40, Issue 2, 2009 pages 143-160 DOI: 10.1080/10314610902849302 Warwick Anderson, Professor of History University of Sydney The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in…
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Prayer, and Bug Juice, at a Summer Camp for Jews of Color The New York Times 2011-08-12 Samuel G. Freedman, Professor of Journalism Columbia University PETALUMA, Calif. — On Sabbath morning, as fog still hung over the valley, the campers walked past the Torrey pines and blackberry bushes toward the garden. There, several rows of…
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San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-08-11 Lydia Lum San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People Yumi Wilson teaches news writing, opinion and literary journalism at San Francisco State University where she’s an associate professor of journalism. Formerly a…
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Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoring Houston Chronicle 2011-07-25 Jennifer Radcliffe It will tally multiracial students but not report their scores separately Multiracial students are being tallied for the first time in Texas history, but their standardized test scores won’t appear as a separate group when accountability ratings are released Friday. As it…
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Racial attitudes and the Anglo‐Indians perceptions of a community before and after independence South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Volume 6, Issue 2 (1983) pages 34-45 DOI: 10.1080/00856408308723045 Coralie Younger University of Sydney The question of racial attitudes between the rulers and the ruled, and whites and non-whites has evoked attention from numerous authors.…