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: Identity Development/Psychology
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Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhood February 2009 44 pages Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center Michigan State University Forthcoming in a 2011 University of Wyoming Law Review issue. American Indian tribes and nations are at a crossroads. One on hand, many tribes like the Cherokee…
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A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen’s Descendents bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1570 2006-08-17 72 pages S. Alan Ray, President Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois The Cherokee Nation today faces the challenge of determining its citizenship criteria in the context of race. The article focuses on the Cherokee Freedmen.…
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Blood Quantum, Race, and Identity in Indian Country January 2011 32 pages Sarah Montana Hart, Judicial Clerk Magistrate Judge Carolyn Ostby Federal District Court for the District of Montana This article discusses how blood quantum laws affect racism and other relations between Indian nations and the United States. 1. Introduction Throughout the history of our…
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Krazy Kat and Racial Identity Graphic Novels: ENGL 375TT (Spring 2009) University of Mary Wahsington 2009-02-01 Zach Whalen, Assistant Professor of English University of Mary Washington After doing some research on George Herriman, the writer and artist for Krazy Kat, I discovered that there has been a lot of critical analysis applied to this comic…
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None of the Above Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1994 23 minutes Erika Surat Andersen University of Southern California None of the Above is a documentary about people of mixed racial heritage based on the filmmaker’s own search for identity and community. Ms. Andersen, whose mother is (Asian) Indian and father is…
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Seoul II Soul Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1999 25 minutes Hak J. Chung Produced at USC School of Cinema & Television Directed by Hak J. Chung Korean American filmmaker Hak J. Chung explores his own identity by taking a close look at a very engaging family. The Yates’ household consists of…
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Variations in Multiracial Identity Integration California State University, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Patricia Y. Singim The purpose of this study was to explore how multiracial people integrate their racial identities and if this integration was related to well-being. Furthermore, differences based on type of mix (half White vs. mixed with groups of color), positive interactions with…