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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Mothering Children of African Descent: Hopes, Fears and Strategies of White Birth Mothers The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (November 2007) pages 62-76 Annie Stopford, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Adjunct Research Fellow University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Introduction It is often acknowledged that African identities are “complex, contested and contingent,”…
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Estelusti Marginality: A Qualitative Examination of the Black Seminole The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 4 (June 2008) pages 60-80 Ray Von Robertson, Assistant Professor of Sociology Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas Approximately four years ago, I began collecting interview data with Black Seminoles/Estelusti in Oklahoma. My research focused on how the Black…
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 4, Spring 2011 pages 661-663 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 Mary Niall Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New Orleans University Shirley Elizabeth Thompson. Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans.…
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“The Face Is the Road Map”: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980–1988 Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 1 (February 2011) pages 33-68 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Jana K. Lipman, Assistant Professor of History Tulane University During the 1980s, U.S. politicians and the media presented Vietnamese Amerasians as quintessential…
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Miengun’s Children: Tales from a Mixed-Race Family Mrs. Jessie W. Hilton of Albuquerque, N.M., who summers at her cottage Mi-en-gun Walszh (Wolf’s Den) in Northport, was hostess at 5:00 o’clock Wednesday at Schuler’s of this city honoring Mrs. C. Stuker of Oak Park, III., house guest of her sister, Mrs. Basil Milliken of Oklahoma City,…
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The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820, ed. Simon Schaffer, Lissa Roberts, Kapil Raj, James Delbourgo; Science History Publications, Sagamore Beach MA, 2009; 552 pp.; 0-88135-374-4.
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More Hawaii residents identify as mixed race USA Today 2011-02-24 William M. Welch Hawaii, the nation’s most ethnically diverse state, has seen a big increase in residents identifying themselves as being of mixed race, according to Census data released Thursday. Among adults 18 and older, those saying they are of two or more races rose…
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Black, Red and Proud: An Interview with Radmilla Cody The Root 2011-02-22 Cynthia Gordy Radmilla Cody’s crowning as Miss Navajo Nation in 1997 triggered an outcry and a conversation about what it means to be Native American. Now she’s featured in a museum exhibit showing the rarely told history of African-Native Americans. In a 1920…
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Multiracial: Border Crosser: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu navigates nations, cultures and academia Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanses American News & Culture 2010-05-20 Akemi Johnson Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu is looking again toward Japan. A psychotherapist, writer and academic, Murphy-Shigematsu has lived in Palo Alto, Calif. the past eight years, teaching at Stanford University and running an independent…