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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Drag our Leaf Icon above to your taskbar to bookmark TGAM in Internet Explorer 9. Show me how Please don’t show me this again Remind me later Multicultural ‘obsession’ drives new Parliamentary Poet Laureate The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2011-12-21 Jane Taber, Senior Political Writer Fred Wah is a little more familiar with the…
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Irish and ‘brown’ – Mixed ‘race’ Irish women’s identity and the problem of belonging Women’s Movement: Migrant Women Transforming Ireland Selection of papers from a conference held in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2003-03-20 through 2003-03-21 pages 86-90 Angeline Morrison Falmouth College of Arts People are beginning to talk about the ‘invisibility’ of Whiteness. I am…
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My Experience on the Indian-Negro Color Line Indian Country Today 2011-12-27 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Growing-up on the Indian-Negro color line (I am the daughter of a European mother and a black and Indian father), I lived with mixed signals and coded information by the dominant culture. It had determined that white European culture…
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Michelle Cliff and the Authority of Identity The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association Volume 28, Number 1, Identities (Spring, 1995) pages 56-70 Sally O’Driscoll, Associate Professor of English Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut Michelle Cliff has gained critical acclaim as a novelist in the United States and England; her position as an expatriate Jamaican…
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Creole Is, Creole Ain’t: Diachronic and Synchronic Attitudes toward Creole Identity in Southern Louisiana Language in Society Volume 29, Number 2 (June, 2000) pages 237-258 Sylvie Dubois, Gabriel Muir Professor of French Studies Louisiana State University Megan Melançon, Associate Professor of English Georgia College Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups…
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Student reflection on the Luther Lecture Impetus Luther College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Fall 2011 Jenna Tickell Senator Lillian Eva Dyck was the 36th Annual Luther Lecturer. Senator Dyck presented her personal story in relation to the issues of racism and sexism in Canada. She began with power-point statistics and ended with…
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“Miss Eurafrica”: Men, Women’s Sexuality, and Métis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945-1960 Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 20, Number 3, September 2011 pages 568-593 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of Chicago The 1960 issue of the magazine L’Eurafricain (The Eurafrican) featured a cover photo of a woman announced…