Mixed Race Studies

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  • White Women in Interracial Families: Reflections on Hybridization, Feminine Identities, and Racialized Othering

    White Women in Interracial Families: Reflections on Hybridization, Feminine Identities, and Racialized Othering Gender Issues Volume 14, Number 2 (June, 1994) pages 49-72 Print ISSN: 1098-092X, Online ISSN: 1936-4717 DOI: 10.1007/BF02685656 Carmen Luke, Emeritus Associate Professor of Education, and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies James Cook University, Queensland, Australia Interracial unions, biracial and…

  • Are multiracial adolescents at greater risk? Comparisons of rates, patterns, and correlates of substance use and violence between monoracial and multiracial adolescents.

    Are multiracial adolescents at greater risk? Comparisons of rates, patterns, and correlates of substance use and violence between monoracial and multiracial adolescents. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Volume 76, Number 1 (January, 2006) pages 86-97 DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.76.1.86 Yoonsun Choi, Associate Professor of Social Service Administration University of Chicago Tracy W. Harachi, Associate Professor of Social Work…

  • Biracial identity and social marginality

    Biracial identity and social marginality Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Issue Volume 7, Number 4 (August, 1990) Pages 319-337 Print ISSN: 0738-0151, Online ISSN: 1573-2797 DOI 10.1007/BF00757029 Philip M. Brown Phoebe Hart House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire This comparative analysis of classic and recent literature explores the developmental and social implications of biracial identity in…

  • Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art

    Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art Bitch Magazine 2010-01-21 Nadra Kareem Works by two mixed-race Brits—musician Corinne Bailey Rae and writer Zadie Smith—have recently been profiled in the New York Times. Both women navigate their collective white and Caribbean ancestry by embracing hybridity instead of relegating themselves to one…

  • Phillip Handy – Race and gender in the family

    Phillip Handy – Race and gender in the family Rutgers University Undergraduate Research Spotlight 2009-07-26 Phillip Handy Rutgers University Phillip Handy discusses his research, which looks into the question of how mother-daughter and father-son relationships impact a mixed-race child’s racial identity. Phillip is advised by Dr. Diana Sanchez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology…

  • Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture

    Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture Rider University News Rider University, New Jersey 2008-10-16 For all his traditional academic rearing, Scott Sandage readily concedes that the revival of narrative has brought a new vitality to the discipline of history. “It was long considered unintellectual to tell…

  • A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger

    A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger Women Make Movies Netherlands, 2004 53 minutes Color, VHS/DVD Subtitled Order No. W05882 Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl. Thanks to her tenacious spirit and an…

  • Coffee Colored Children: A film by Ngozi Onwurah

    This lyrical, unsettling film conveys the experience of children of mixed racial heritage. Suffering the aggression of racial harassment, a young girl and her brother attempt to wash their skin white with scouring powder.

  • Misplaced Bodies: Probing Racial and Gender Signifiers in Ngozi Onwurah’s The Body Beautiful

    In her seminal text Femininity, Susan Brownmiller identifies what can simply be termed the mythic proportions of the female body. Idealized, worshiped, ravaged, and reviled-the female body is forever being measured (usually against the unattainable paradigms of a male imagination) and found lacking. The myth of the female body’s inadequacy is crucial to my discussion…

  • My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self

    My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self University of Victoria 2004 106 pages Sylvia Rae Cottell, B.F.A. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies…