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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Plessy as “Passing”: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson Law & Society Review Volume 39, Issue 3 (September 2005) pages 563–600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x Mark Golub, Assistant Professor of Politics & International Relations Scripps College, Claremont, California The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is infamous for its doctrine of…
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Interrogating Identity Construction: Bodies versus Community in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 61-69 Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In an interview for the journal MELUS, Hsiu-chuan Lee claims that Cynthia Kadohata…
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Diversity on a Personal Level: A First Look at Multiple Race Population Indiana Business Review Summer 2001 pages 6-7 John Besl, Research Demographer Indiana Business Research Center, Kelley School of Business Indiana University For many decades, census data have provided a look at racial diversity in our nation’s communities. But Census 2000 offers a truly…
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HapaSC: A Place Multiracial Call Home Campus Circle News Los Angeles, California 2010-08-16 Stephanie Forshee Multiracial students at USC [University of Southern California] like Lauren Perez are devoting time to create a place where you can express every part of yourself. HapaSC is an organization of about 30 USC students that raises awareness for “mixed”…
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Hybridity and Whiteness in Claudine C. O’Hearn’s Half and Half: Writings on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Volume 7, Issue 3 (September 2005) 9 pages Heather Latimer Simon Fraser University In her paper, “Hybridity and Whiteness” in Claudine C. O’Hearn’s Half and Half: Writings on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural,…
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Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor’s Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) History News Network December 2009 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College “Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness” (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) On a fall…
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“A gallant heart to the empire.” Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures Philological Quarterly Volume 83, Number 2, Spring, 2004 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003…