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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Mixed-Race Students Wonder How Many Boxes to Check The New York Times 2011-06-14 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg Multiracial students confess to spending sleepless nights worrying about how best to answer the race question on college applications. Some say they wonder whether their answers will be perceived as gamesmanship or a reflection of reality… Read the…
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On College Forms, a Question of Race, or Races, Can Perplex The New York Times 2011-06-13 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg HOUSTON — At the beginning of the college application season last fall, Natasha Scott, a high school senior of mixed racial heritage in Beltsville, Md., vented about a personal dilemma on College Confidential, the go-to…
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Defining multiracial citizens The Boston Globe 2011-06-12 Brittany Danielson, Globe Correspondent Evolving ideas about identity mean mixed-race people don’t have to settle for ‘other’ n a suburban Massachusetts classroom in 1985, a 7-year-old Chris Olds raised his hand to grab his teacher’s attention; he wasn’t sure which bubble to fill in for race on a…
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Drôle de Félix : A Search for Cultural Identity on the Road Wide Screen Volume 3, Number 1 (2011) ISSN: 1757-3920 Zélie Asava With the emergence of la culture beur in the 1980s—and the birth of a new type of filmmaking influenced by postcolonial politics, world cinema, the new hood films of the African-American community…
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 1 (2011) Pages 154-155 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar004 Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York: Norton, 2008. 802 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Paper, ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1.)…
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The Hidden History of Mestizo America The Journal of American History Volume 82, Number 3 (December, 1995) pages 941-964 5 illustrations Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles This essay was delivered as the presidential address at the national meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington, March 31,…
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Racial mixture, racial passing, and white subjectivity in Absalom, Absalom! The Faulkner Journal Volume 23, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 3-22 Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama In his 1987 study of the critical reception of Absalom, Absalom! Bernd Engler points out that “since the mid-Seventies the only interpretations to gain favour…
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Re-articulating the New Mestiza Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 12, #2 (March 2011) Special Issue: Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2009 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition pages 61-74 Zalfa Feghali University of Nottingham This essay provides an overview, critique, and the beginning of a refiguration of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theorization…
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Mistaken identity The Boston Globe 2005-02-20 Holly Jackson What if a novelist celebrated as a pioneer of African-American women’s literature turned out not to be black at all? IN THE LATE 1980s, scholars of African-American studies carried out the most impressive American literary recovery project to date, excavating and reprinting the works of numerous unjustly…