Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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“War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference University of California, Riverside Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-12 Laura Kina, Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design and distinguished Vincent de Paul Professor DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American…
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Greg Carroll Draws Large Crowd for Talk on Melungeon Heritage West Virginia Archives & History West Virginia Division of Culture & History Volume 11, Number 8 (October 2010) page 2 Archives historian Greg Carroll drew a large crowd for his talk [2010-09-09] on groups of people in the Appalachian area and beyond commonly called Melungeon.…
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Half-Caste (An Excerpt) Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 1, (2008) 6 pages Angela Ajayi At about the age of nineteen, a year after I arrived for college in the United States, I stopped thinking of myself as “half-caste.” The word, so loaded in its literal meaning and with its colonial roots, was…
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Alumni Profile • Angela Ajayi ’97 The Calvin Spark The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Calvin College Fall 2005 Working at the big question Who am I and how do I fit in this world? While every person struggles with these questions, they come to Angela Ajayi ’97 with some particular twists. The daughter…
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‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English University of Córdoba In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined…
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School Counselors’ Perceptions of Biracial Children: A Pilot Study Professional School Counseling American School Counselor Association December 2002 page 120-129 Henry L. Harris, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Counseling University of North Carolina, Charlotte Biracial children represent a growing segment of America’s increasingly diverse population. According to Kalish (1995), data from the National…