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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Ten Questions, with Adebe DeRango-Adem Open Book Toronto 2011-03-25 Adebe DeRango-Adem talks to Open Book about the anthology she co-edited with Andrea Thompson, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (Inanna Publications). The goal for this exciting anthology was not to nail down what identity means, but rather to open discussion and interrogate the diverse experiences…
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The Family Changes Colour: Interracial Families in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Screen Volume 43 Issue 3 (Autumn 2002) pages 271-292 DOI: 10.1093/screen/43.3.271 Nicola J. Evans, Lecturer of Media and Cultural Studies University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia How profound the hatred, how deep the bigotry… that wakens in this image of black life blooming within…
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Being and Belonging: Space and Identity in Cape Town Anthropology and Humanism Volume 28, Issue 1 (June 2003) pages 61–84 DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2003.28.1.61 Shannon M. Jackson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Missouri, Kansas City The post-apartheid transition has led to changes in the shape and meaning of urban space in South Africa. Cape Town is…
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Mark Tawin’s Mississippi: Race, 1800-1850 Mark Twain’s Mississippi Project Partners: Northern Illinois University Libraries, The Newberry Library, The St. Louis Mercantile Library, Tulane University Libraries and University of California, Berkeley Made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services 2005 Peter J. Kastor, Associate Professor of History and American Culture Studies…
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Without Impediment: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Colonial Mexico The Americas Volume 67, Number 4 (April 2011) E-ISSN: 1533-6247; Print ISSN: 0003-1615 Jake Federick, Assistant Professor of History Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin On April 18, 1773, in the town of Teziutlán in the eastern mountains of Mexico, Captain don Raphael Padres participated in the baptism of…
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Afro-Saxon psychosis or cultural schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans? The Psychiatrist Volume 24, Issue 3 (2000) pages 96-97 DOI: 10.1192/pb.24.3.96 Hari D. Maharajh, Psychiatric Hospital Director St Ann’s Hospital, Trinidad, West Indies “Everybody in Miguel Street said that Man-man was mad, and so they left him alone, but I am not sure now that he was mad…
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The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (review) Theatre Journal Volume 63, Number 1 (March 2011) pages 136-138 E-ISSN: 1086-332X; Print ISSN: 0192-2882 Douglas A. Jones Jr. Stanford University Although the election of a mixed-race president signaled to many the beginning of the end of the problem of the color line, the…