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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A content and methodological review of articles concerning multiracial issues in six major counseling journals Journal of Counseling Psychology Vol 55(3) Jul 2008 pages 411-418 Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University This study describes a comprehensive content and methodological review…
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The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents First Draft: August 2005 This Version: July 2008 Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Professor of Economics Harvard University and NBER Lisa Kahn, Assistant Professor of Economics Yale School of Management Steven D. Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics University of Chicago and American Bar Foundation Jörg L.…
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Salt-sweat & Tears Cinnamon Press March 2007 80 pages 21 x 14 x 0.8 cm Paperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189 Louisa Adjoa Parker Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces. Mulatto Girl See the mulatto girl walking down country lanes and…
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Mixed Race Literature Stanford University Press 2002 256 pages 8 illustrations Cloth Edition: ISBN-10: 0804736391; ISBN-13: 9780804736398 Paperback Edition ISBN-10: 0804736405; ISBN-13: 9780804736404 Edited by Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California This collection presents the first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written…
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In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Over more than twenty years of marriage, they formed a strong family and built a house at the end of a winding sandy road in South Alabama, a place where…
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When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a “Caublinasian”, affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created. This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms ‘Black’ or ‘White’.
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Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 3 (Summer/Spring 1997) pages 12-14 Stefanie Dunning, Associate Professor Miami University (of Ohio) To talk about the complexities of subjectivity is to enter into a discussion which necessarily locates itself at the intersection of race, clans, gender and sexuality.…