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: Papers/Presentations
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School of Cultural Inquiry Seminar Series – Narrating the Nowhere People: FB Vickers’ The Mirage and “Half-Caste” Aboriginals Australian National University A. D. Hope Conference Room (Building 14) 2011-06-06, 16:16-17:30 (Local TIme) Rich Pascal, Visiting Fellow School of Cultural Inquiry Australian National University By the turn of the Twentieth Century, and increasingly in the decades…
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Passing for Black: Sermon Unitarian Church of Norfolk Norfolk, Virginia 2010-08-29 Dr. Walter Skip Earl OPENING WORDS Forty-seven years ago yesterday, on August 28, 1963, before a huge crowd of African and other Americans gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s…
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Responsible Mixed Race Politics How do identities matter? Stanford University 2005-01-13 Presentation by: Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco The harshest critics of mixed-race have claimed that the identity is self-indulgent and irresponsible, because it evades or, worse, is complicit in racism. Such strident condemnations of mixed-race identity are…
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Black, White, Light, and Bright: A Narrative of Creole Color Past Narratives/Narratives Past Graduate Conference Stanford University, Stanford, California 2001-02-16 through 2001-02-18 20 pages Christopher N. Matthews, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hofstra University Much of the world of life is made real through the symbolic application of color, shade, hue, and other features of visual…
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Griqua Identity: A Bibliography 2010 47 pages Allegra Louw, Librarian African Studies Library University of Cape Town Introduction Most scholars acknowledge that the origins of the Griqua people are rooted in the complex relationships between autochthonous KhoeSan, slaves, Africans and European settlers. Coupled with the intricacies that underpin the issue of Griqua identity—and often as…
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Coloured Identity: South Africa, A Select bibliography November 2010 74 pages Allegra Louw, Librarian African Studies Library University of Cape Town Introduction According to Mohamed Adhikari, a leading scholar on Coloured Identity, the concept of “Colouredness” functioned as a social identity from the time of the formation of the South African state in 1910 to…