Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Lost in the Middle: Growing up Across Racial & Cultural Divides

    Lost in the Middle: Growing up Across Racial & Cultural Divides The Washington Post 1998-05-17 Malcolm Gladwell His parents conqured racial difference with dignity and relative ease.  But race became a more complicated question for their son. One summer Saturday, when I was growing up, my father piled my brothers and me into the family…

  • Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah’s Musical Performance in Tribe 8

    Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah’s Musical Performance in Tribe 8 Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 10, Number 4 (August 2010) pages 295-306 Deanna Shoemaker, Assistant Professor of Applied Communication (Performance Studies) Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey This essay analyzes the musical performances of Leslie Mah, biracial lead guitarist and backup vocalist for the…

  • Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/ Body Politics in Africana Communities

    This book features engaging scholarly essays, poems and creative writings that all examine the meanings of the Black anatomy in our changing global world. The body, including its hair, is said to be read like a text where readers draw center interpretations based on signs, symbols, and culture.

  • Arts and Mixedness [eConference]

    Arts and Mixedness [eConference] Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Runnymede is currently hosting an online debate on mixed-race identity and the arts. There is a comment from columnist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Mixed-Race Britain: Where Next? Playwright and poet Sabrina Mahfouz also writes about her thoughts on mixed-race identity: A Reflection on Mixedness.  There are also contributions from…

  • Mixed Race Britain: Where Next?

    Mixed Race Britain: Where Next? Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent Journalist My two books on mixed race Britons, Colour of Love (1992) and Mixed Feelings (2001) were among the first non-academic explorations of racial mixing in Britain. In the nine years between the two publications, awareness had grown of the fast rising number of…

  • Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand Paper Presented to Te Oru Rangahau Maori Research and Development Conference 1998-07-07 through 1998-07-09 Massey University 7 pages Paul Meredith (Ngati Kaputuhi/Pakeha), Research Fellow Te Matahauariki Institute University of Waikato, New Zealand This brief paper joins a growing call for a reconceptualisation of bicultural…

  • Claiming the (n)either/(n)or of ‘third space’: (re)presenting hybrid identity and the embodiment of mixed race

    Claiming the (n)either/(n)or of ‘third space’: (re)presenting hybrid identity and the embodiment of mixed race Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 25, Issue 1 (April 2004) pages 75 – 85 DOI: 10.1080/07256860410001687036 Torika Bolatagici, Associate Lecturer School of Communication & Creative Arts Deakin University, Melbourne, Austrailia As a multiracial artist, I am interested in how people…

  • Research Project on Mixed Race Identity

    Research Project on Mixed Race Identity Are you of a mixed racial background? Do you identify as ‘mixed’ or ‘mixed race’? Do you identify with a mixed racial identity? This project is being conducted for a Master’s thesis in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. The purpose of the project is to…

  • Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family

    Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family University of Chicago Press 2004 200 pages 22 halftones, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780226318219 Paper ISBN: 9780226318233 Ronne Hartfield In her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of…

  • Barack Obama and the Charm of the Stranger

    Barack Obama and the Charm of the Stranger The Zeleza Post 2009-01-25 Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Associate Professor of Africana Studies San Diego State University What is source of Barack Obama’s charm? Why was he able to win over whites, blacks and Latinos in a country that is famously partisan? Arguably, there are politicians who are…