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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Perhaps growing up in Vancouver has changed the way I approach the question, “But where are you really from?” There is no doubt that my geographical position in this country changes the climate in which that question is asked.
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1.1 But Where are You Really From? Intro Schema Magazine Schema In-Depth 2009-05-05 Jen Sookfong Lee, Founding Senior Editor With no easy answer to this often complicated question, author of End of East, Jen Sookfong Lee, begins our inaugural special series, featuring no less than SIX highly unique “But where are you really from?” stories.…
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Black Mom + Indian Dad = Search for Identity Ebony Magazine 2012-12-17 Sharda Sekaran Sharda Sekaran can’t deny her East Indian roots, but she can’t find them either It was my senior year of college. I sat at the end of a long oval table in a meeting room in one of the academic buildings.…
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Identity, dislocation and belonging: Chinese/European narratives of mixedness in Aotearoa/New Zealand Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Published online: 2012-12-14 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2012.752369 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore With over 10% of the population identifying with multiple ethnic groups, identities in New Zealand are increasingly complex. This article…
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Evoking the Mulatto: Exploring Black Mixed Identity in the 21st Century 2012 Lindsay C. Harris, Creator, Director, Artist & Lead Curator Tida Tippapart, Producer and Co-Curator Chelsea Rae Klein, Web Designer and Co-Curator Evoking the Mulatto is a multiplatform narrative and visual art project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens…