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: Latino Studies
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‘What are you, anyway?’: Why I loved growing up in a mixed-race family The Digital Universe Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 2014-11-01 Angela Marler When I was a kid it was completely normal for me to spend one weekend with my mom’s side of the family, roasting a goat in a pit in the driveway,…
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Growing Up On Burritos and Black-Eyed Peas: An Autoethnography of Multiracial Identity Development Georgia State University 2014-05-16 210 pages Marie Castro Bruner A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Teaching and Learning in the Department of Middle-Secondary Education in the College of Education Georgia State University…
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Should “Latino” be a Race on the Census? National Institute for Latino Policy Guest Commentary 2014-10-26 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California Few questions cause as much existential angst among Latino intellectuals as this one. The Latino origin question was added to the Census in such a hurry back in 1970, that little…
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Multiracial family embraces twins’ uniqueness News 10, KXTV Sacramento, California 2014-10-02 Daria Givens, News 10 Staff A Lincoln family embodies California’s melting pot and embraces their uniqueness. LINCOLN – Fraternal twins Viviana and Dennis look very different from each other. They are part of the Ng Family, a multiracial family from all parts of the…
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Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality University of California Press March 2011 282 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520267305 Paperback ISBN: 9780520267312 Michael J. Montoya, Professor of Anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies & Public Health University of California, Irvine This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2…
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The trials of being mixed race in American society The Spartan Daily: Serving San Jose State since 1934 San Jose, California 2014-09-24 Lauren Hernandez My mixed-race identity has been a cause of frustration my entire life. At first glance, one may see my fair skin and assume I am white. They would be half right.…
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Afro-Latinos Seek Recognition, And Accurate Census Count NBC News 2014-09-21 Raul A. Reyes NEW YORK, NY — Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to recognize the contributions of Latinos in the U.S., yet one group often feels left out of the Hispanic community. Afro-Latinos say that they struggle with acceptance from both Latinos and African-Americans.…