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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‘If You Can’t Pronounce My Name, You Can Just Call Me Pride’: Afro-German Activism, Gender and Hip Hop Gender & History Volume 15 Issue 3 (November 2003) Pages 460 – 486 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00316.x Fatima El-Tayeb, Assistant Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego The history of the black German minority, now…
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‘Fühlst du dich als Deutsche oder als Afrikanerin?’: May Ayim’s Search for an Afro-German Identity in her Poetry and Essays German Life and Letters Volume 59 Issue 4 (October 2006) Pages 500-514 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2006.00364.x Jennifer Michaels, Professor of German; Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities Grinnell College, Iowa Until her suicide in 1996, May…
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Distancing the Proximate Other: Hybridity and Maud Diver’s Candles in the Wind Twentieth Century Literature Volume 50, Number 2 (Summer, 2004) pages 107-140 Loretta M. Mijares The half-caste out here falls between two stools, that’s the truth. —Maud Diver, Candles in the Wind Miscegenation has long been recognized as one of the recurrent tropes of…
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Jackie Kay’s Representation of ‘The Broons’: Scotland’s Happy Family eSharp Special Issue: Spinning Scotland: Exploring Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2009) pages 109-143 ISSN: 1742-4542 Mª del Coral Calvo Maturana Universidad de Granada This paper focuses on the contemporary Scottish poet Jackie Kay and the comic strip ‘The Broons’ by studying Jackie Kay’s representation of this…
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Jackie Kay (Review of Darling) Aesthetica Magazine Issue 19 (2007-10-01) page 10 Rachel Hazelwood Jackie Kay is one of the most prolific and insightful poets currently writing in the UK today. At a time when too many people frequently describe the form as being “in decline” and thought of as an “exclusive club”, Kay writes…
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Biracial Asian Americans and Mental Health University of California, Davis News and Information 2008-08-10 A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder. The study by researchers at the Asian American Center on Disparities…
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Biracial Student Voices: Experiences at predominatly white institutions The Bulletin Association of College Unions International Volume 77, Issue 6 (November 2009) Willie L. Banks Jr., Associate Dean of Student Life Cleveland State University Race is a complex issue for campuses to address. Often, universities tout their diversity by sharing statistics about the respective racial populations…