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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Redefining their races: More students choosing to identify as mixed The Western Front Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington 2011-11-18 Casey Malloy When Western Washington University junior Emily Goronkin applied to the university three years ago, she came to a point in the application at which she was asked for her racial identity. She checked Hispanic…
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Refusal to be defined by single categories: Lorde in 1983.
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Commentary: Debating Coloured Identity in the Western Cape African Security Review Volume 14, Number 4 (2005) pages 118-119 Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow Security Sector Governance Programme Institute of Security Studies, (Tshwane) Pretoria The nature and form of coloured identity in the Western Cape has been vociferously debated. Coloured identity became a particular concern after…
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Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions? Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: New Ethnicities, Old Racisms? (pages 181-204) Zed Books May 1999 253 pages ISBN-10: 185649652X; ISBN-13: 978-1856496520 Edited by: Phil Cohen, Emeritus Professor University of East London The recent bag…
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Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national…
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Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own University of Texas Press April 2011 292 pages 6 x 9 in., 6 b&w photos Edited by: AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s University Gloria González-López, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Faculty Associate Center for Mexican American Studies Center for Women’s and Gender…