Mixed Race Studies

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  • Toni Morrison and the Evolution of American Biracial Identity

    Toni Morrison and the Evolution of American Biracial Identity Occidental College Oxy Scholar: ECLS Student Scholarship Submisions for 2009 2008-12-10 17 pages Emily Isenberg She enchanted the entire school. When teachers called on her, they smiled encouragingly. Black boys didn’t trip her in the halls; white boys didn’t stone her, white girls didn’t suck their…

  • Dismembering the Master Narrative: Michelle Cliff’s Attempt to Rewrite Jamaican History in Abeng

    Dismembering the Master Narrative: Michelle Cliff’s Attempt to Rewrite Jamaican History in Abeng St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York English Senior Seminar Papers 2012-11-27 27 pages Marissa Petta St. John Fisher College Abeng by Michelle Cliff is a coming-of-age novel set in colonial Jamaica. The heroine, Clare, struggles with defining herself across the lines…

  • Challenging the Racial Dichotomy in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    Nella Larsen’s “Passing” introduces two African American women on a quest for an integrated identity. Irene and Clare are two pale-skinned, childhood friends who are light enough to pass for white. Passing is a work concerned with the representation and construction of race.

  • The Racial Politics of Culture and Silent Racism in Peru

    The Racial Politics of Culture and Silent Racism in Peru Paper prepared for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference on Racism and Public Policy Durban, South Africa 2001-09-03 through 2001-09-05 13 pages Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In this talk mestizaje is both the…

  • What should Multiracial people learn? Learning goals for anti-(mono)racist education

    What should Multiracial people learn? Learning goals for anti-(mono)racist education Paper presented at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-01 6 pages Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst Political education has played important roles in many social movements. Philosopher Ronald Sundstrom has argued that Multiracial activists and community organizers have a…

  • Harry Potter and the mistaken myth of the Mixed-Race messiah

    Harry Potter and the mistaken myth of the Mixed-Race messiah Paper presented at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-03 6 pages Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Harry Potter franchise has worldwide popularity. Contained within Harry Potter are popular stories about Mixed-Race, both appealing and toxic. Harry Potter and…

  • Race, Skin Color, and Economic Outcomes in Early Twentieth-Century America

    Race, Skin Color, and Economic Outcomes in Early Twentieth-Century America Stanford University Job Market Paper 2012-11-28 53 pages Roy Mill Department of Economics Stanford University Luke C.D. Stein Department of Economics Stanford University We study the effect of race on economic outcomes using unique data from the first half of the twentieth century, a period…

  • Rosa Mahier’s Freedom: Identity and the Maintenance of Liberty in Antebellum Louisiana

    Rosa Mahier’s Freedom: Identity and the Maintenance of Liberty in Antebellum Louisiana 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 14:50 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom I (Roosevelt New Orleans) Paper in AHA Session 220: Manipulating Freedom: Liberty, Enslavement, and the Quest for Power in the Southwestern…

  • Donas, Signares, and Free Women of Color: African and Eurafrican Women of the Atlantic World in an Age of Racial Slavery

    Donas, Signares, and Free Women of Color: African and Eurafrican Women of the Atlantic World in an Age of Racial Slavery 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 153 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 09:00-11:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Hilary Jones, University of…

  • Black Faces, White Deeds: The Miracles of Ancient Ethiopian Saints in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic

    Black Faces, White Deeds: The Miracles of Ancient Ethiopian Saints in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Thursday, 2013-01-03: 16:10 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 3 (New Orleans Marriott) From Session AHA Session 31: Saintly Translations: Stories about Saints across Time…