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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- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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 Passing and American Individualism University of Massachusetts Press February 2003 176 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-55849-377-8 (Print on Demand) Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for…
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DNA Is Only One Way to Spell Identity The Washington Post 2006-01-01 W. Ralph Eubanks Every year,” I once overheard my father say jokingly to a friend, “thousands of Negroes disappear.” I remember my 8-year-old imagination going into overdrive, picturing people zapped from their homes in the middle of the night. It was only as…
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Mixed emotions: The multiracial student experience at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley News University of California, Berkeley 2005-03-07 Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter BERKELEY – “What are you?” That’s the question Robert Allen, adjunct professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, writes on the chalkboard when students first file in for his “People…
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Mixed race, mixed emotions The Arizona Republic 2005-05-13 Janie Magruder Multiracial children face challenges of identity, community Aaron Foster was 3 years old the first time the question came. “What are you?” asked the barber, out of earshot of his mother. “I’m a boy,” Aaron replied, bewildered. “No, what are you? Black? Chinese?” “I do…
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What Racial Hybridity? Sexual Politics of Mixed-Race Identities in the Caribbean and the Performance of Blackness Lucayos The School of English Studies of The College of The Bahamas’ Journal of Caribbean and Postcolonial Criticism and Creative Work Volume 1 (2008) pages 90-105 Papers from the 26th West Indian Literature Conference, March 8-10, 2007 Angelique V.…