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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Drawing Battle Lines Sarah Lawrence College Magazine Spring 2003: Who Are You Catherine McKinley[-Davis] was one of only a few thousand African-American and biracial children adopted by white couples in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her consciousness grew as she did. Her very identity—composed both of the whiteness and…
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Family Identity: Black-White Interracial Family Health Experience Journal of Family Nursing (2006) Vol. 12, No. 1 Pages 22-37 DOI: 10.1177/1074840705285213 Marcia Marie Byrd, PhD, RN College of St. Catherine Ann Williams Garwick, PhD, RN, LP, LMFT, FAAN University of Minnesota The purpose of this interpretive descriptive study was to describe how eight Black-White couples with…
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Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler by Kathryn Talalay Oxford University Press (317 pp.) Hardcover ISBN 0-19-509608-8 As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both awe and…
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Health and Behavior Risks of Adolescents with Mixed-Race Identity American Journal of Public Health Volume 93, Number 11 (November 2003) Pages 1865-1870 J. Richard Udry, PhD, Kenan Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Sociology Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Rose Maria Li, PhD Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina,…
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The White Blackbird: Miscegenation, Genre, and the Tragic Mulatta in Howells, Harper, and the “Babes of Romance” Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 56, Number 4 (March 2002) Pages 495–517 DOI 10.1525/ncl.2002.56.4.495 Debra J. Rosenthal, Associate Professor of English John Carroll University In this essay I construct a literary genealogy that situates William Dean Howells in the middle…