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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Hybrid Navigator Small Axe Number 32 (Volume 14, Number 2), June 2010 pages 150-159 E-ISSN: 1534-6714 Print ISSN: 0799-0537 Satch Hoyt, Artist/Sculptor I was born in London to an Afro-Jamaican father and a white English mother in the late 1950s. It was, to say the least, a lonely terra nova, a traumatic neocolonial, cross-cultural terrain,…
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Lost in the Middle: Growing up Across Racial & Cultural Divides The Washington Post 1998-05-17 Malcolm Gladwell His parents conqured racial difference with dignity and relative ease. But race became a more complicated question for their son. One summer Saturday, when I was growing up, my father piled my brothers and me into the family…
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Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah’s Musical Performance in Tribe 8 Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 10, Number 4 (August 2010) pages 295-306 Deanna Shoemaker, Assistant Professor of Applied Communication (Performance Studies) Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey This essay analyzes the musical performances of Leslie Mah, biracial lead guitarist and backup vocalist for the…
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Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea” and Phillips’s “Cambridge” Small Axe Number 21 (Volume 10, Number 3) October 2006 pages 87-104 E-ISSN: 1534-6714, Print ISSN: 0799-0537 DOI: 10.1353/smx.2006.0035 Vivian Nun Halloran, Assoiate Professor of Comparative Literature Indiana University, Bloomington As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the anglophone…
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Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far’s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 54, Number 4, Winter 2008 pages 654-688 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1561 Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Assistant Professor of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst This essay looks at how Sui Sin Far’s…
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Rene, Louis, and Leopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 2005 pages 921-935 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2006.0008 Michel Fabre Randall Cherry Jonathan P. (Paul) Eburne, Professor of Comparative Literature and English Pennsylvania State University Drawing from archival documentation of their long-standing literary relationship,…
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The Meaning of Race in Healthcare and Research-Part 2: Should Race Be Used in Health Care and Research? Pediatric Nursing Volume 31, Number 4 (July-August 2005) Pages 305-308 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma The state of race today is complex and challenging. An article published in the…
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Gabriela Meets Olodum: Paradoxes of Hybridity, Racial Identity, and Black Consciousness in Contemporary Brazil Research in African Literatures Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 181-193 E-ISSN: 1527-2044 Print ISSN: 0034-5210 DOI: 10.1353/ral.2007.0007 Russell G. Hamilton, Emeritus Professor of Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Literatures Vanderbilt University With respect to the first part of this…
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Editorial: “Race Correction” in Pulmonary-Function Testing New England Journal of Medicine 2010-07-07 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1005902 Paul D. Scanlon, M.D. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota Mark D. Shriver, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University, University Park (M.D.S.) Tests of pulmonary function and radiographic imaging of the chest are the two…