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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Category: Articles
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Dating Practices, Racial Identity, and Psychotherapeutic Needs of Biracial Women Women & Therapy Volume 27, Issue 1 & 2 January 2004 pages 103 – 117 DOI: 10.1300/J015v27n01_07 Ivory Roberts-Clarke University of Rhode Island Angie C. Roberts University of Georgia Patricia Morokoff, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology University of Rhode Island Studies…
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Self-made women in a (racist) man’s world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head English Academy Review Volume 25, Issue 1 (May 2008) pages 66-76 DOI: 10.1080/10131750802099490 Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio (Her research aims to situate mixed race studies in a relatively unexplored sub-Saharan African context.) Nella…
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‘No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women’s Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815-1822 Fiona Vernal Department of History University of Connecticut Slavery & Abolition Volume 29, Issue 1 January 2008 pages 23 – 47 DOI: 10.1080/01440390701841034 In 1815, a…
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Situating Multiethnic Identity: Contributions of Discourse Theory to the Study of Mixed Heritage Students Journal of Language, Identity & Education Volume 3, Issue 3 (July 2004) pages 195-213 DOI: 10.1207/s15327701jlie0303_2 Kendra R. Wallace University of Maryland, Baltimore County The article considers the contributions of Gee‘s Discourse theory to the study of multiethnic identity among mixed…