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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Marvel’s Mixed Race “Ultimate Spider-Man” The Huffington Post 2011-08-03 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As a kid from Queens, NY it’s not hard to understand why Spider-Man has always been my favorite superhero. Aside from a shared geographical location Spider-Man reflected many of the qualities of urban youth. He came from a working class…
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‘Queer magic’: Performing mixed-race on the Australian stage Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 16, Issue 2, 2006 pages 171-188 DOI: 10.1080/10486800600587138 Jacqueline Lo, Professor and Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies Austrailian National University Half-caste-woman, living a life apart. What did your story begin? Half-caste-woman, have you a secret heart Waiting for someone to…
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Miscegenation’s ‘dusky human consequences’ Postcolonial Studies Volume 5, Issue 3, 2002 pages 297-307 DOI: 10.1080/1368879022000032801 Jacqueline Lo, Professor and Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies Austrailian National University Race is defined not by its purity but rather by the impurity conferred upon it by a system of domination. Bastard and mixed-blood are the…
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Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs Indian Voices July/August 2011 Rose Davis, Publisher Indian Voices At last a true Separate But Equal—For the Good of the People The Dawes Rolls (a census, used by the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs] to determine identity of Tribal members and citizens) came into existence in…
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South Africa: Is the Sun Setting on Afrikaners? International Business Times 2011-07-27 Palash R. Ghosh The recent death of Magnus Malan, the feared former general and defense minister of South Africa, might have ended an era in a country once defined by strict racial separation. Malan, who ferociously fought to maintain racial apartheid until the…
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Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 5, Number 3 (November 2010) pages 273-299 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2010.513829 Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness…