Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Biography
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Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies The Miami Herald 2013-01-21 Freida Frisaro, Associated Press MIAMI — Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, has died. He was 87. His son said Massaquoi died Saturday, on…
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‘Searching for Zion’: Emily Raboteau’s Hunt for the Promised Land The Daily Beast 2013-01-13 Mindy Farabee A writer set out around the world to find the mythical ‘promised land’ of the African diaspora. Emily Raboteau speaks about the Jewish search for the same, African-American tourism to Ghana, and Barack Obama’s ties to this search. Mention…
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Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story University of Minnesota Press 2010 272 pages 23 b&w plates, 6 x 9 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6678-2 George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer,…
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Discovery of his roots leads him to track history of Chinese in Mexico UCLA Today Faculty and Staff News 2010-12-06 Letisia Marquez Growing up in a predominantly white Los Angeles County suburb, Robert Chao Romero, an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, learned to hide his Chinese background. The son of a Chinese…
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In an era in which African Americans were oppressed and deprived of many of the rights and privileges of citizenship, Scott Bond rose from being born a slave in Madison County, Mississippi, in the early 1850s to wealth and status as a farmer, merchant, and business entrepreneur in Madison, Arkansas, by the early 1900s.
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Soledad O’Brien: A woman of many backgrounds Irish Voice 2009-07-22 Cahir O’Doherty, Arts Editor and Feature Writer Maria de la Soledad Teresa O’Brien’s name is like a bridge across cultures. In Spanish her full name means “The Blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude,” and when she first started working in the media many people quietly suggested…
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Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker The New York Times Magazine 2012-12-18 Andrew Goldman Your memoir made your experience growing up in Smithtown, a largely white town on Long Island, sound like a huge drag. It really wasn’t. It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community.…
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A riveting memoir of cultural crossfire
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Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin Far, Winnifred presented herself as Japanese American and published Japanese romance novels in English under the name Onoto Watanna.