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: Biography
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Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…
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Daughter from Danang 2002 U.S.A. 81 Minutes Directed by: Gail Dolgin Vicente Franco A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi [Bub] is the proverbial “all-American girl”, hailing from small town Pulaski,…
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Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-02-06 Rudolph P. Byrd, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies and African American Studies Emory University Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University On August 4, 1922,…
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Multiracial: Border Crosser: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu navigates nations, cultures and academia Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanses American News & Culture 2010-05-20 Akemi Johnson Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu is looking again toward Japan. A psychotherapist, writer and academic, Murphy-Shigematsu has lived in Palo Alto, Calif. the past eight years, teaching at Stanford University and running an independent…
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Race, Sex and the Trials of a Young Explorer The New York Times 2011-02-13 Richard Conniff In 1859, Paul Du Chaillu, a young explorer of French origin and adopted American nationality, wandered out of the jungle after a four-year expedition in Gabon. He brought with him complete specimens of 20 gorillas, an animal almost unknown…
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Asian American Studies: Building Academic Bridges – Nitasha Sharma The Department of African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois October 2010 Ronald Roach NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA Title: Assistant Professor of African-American and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of alifornia at Santa Barbara; M.A., Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A.,…
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Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes Biography Volume 23, Number 4 (Fall 2000) pages 670-693 E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0043 Juda Charles Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Desire to us Was like a double death, Swift dying Of our mingled breath, Evaporation Of an unknown…
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Blacks and Native Americans have deep ties Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-11-18 Manny Otiko, Our Weekly Contributor November is Native Heritage month There is an old joke in the Black community about women attributing long hair to having “Indian blood” in their family. But like all jokes, there is an…