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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Becoming Modern Racialized Subjects: Detours through our pasts to produce ourselves anew Cultural Studies Volume 23, Number 4 (July 2009) pages 624-657 DOI: 10.1080/09502380902950948 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University This essay is a close engagement with the work of Stuart Hall which has been…
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‘Fühlst du dich als Deutsche oder als Afrikanerin?’: May Ayim’s Search for an Afro-German Identity in her Poetry and Essays German Life and Letters Volume 59 Issue 4 (October 2006) Pages 500-514 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2006.00364.x Jennifer Michaels, Professor of German; Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities Grinnell College, Iowa Until her suicide in 1996, May…
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Biracial Asian Americans and Mental Health University of California, Davis News and Information 2008-08-10 A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder. The study by researchers at the Asian American Center on Disparities…
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ENGL S-88 Study Abroad in Venice, Italy: Interracial Literature (32137) Harvard Summer Program in Venice, Italy: Liberal arts studies in Italy’s city of canals 2010-06-03 through 2010-07-30 Mondays, Wednesdays, 10:00-12:30 CEST (Local Time) (4 credits: UN, GR) Limited enrollment Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African-American Studies Harvard University…
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“Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity” offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members.