Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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FYS 102N – Exploring Mixed Identities University of Maryland, Baltimore County Honors College Summer 2012 Jessica Guzman-Rea The aim of this course is to move beyond prevalent monoracial discourses by examining identities and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course explores many topics such as the history of racialization, processes of othering, acceptance…
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AFR 108: What Passes for Freedom?: Mixed-Race Figures in U.S. Culture Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Spring 2013 Cross Listed as AMST107, ENGL108 Vincent J. Schleitwiler, Assistant Professor of English The idea of a distinct category of individuals identified as “biracial,” “multiracial,” or “mixed-race” has become increasingly prominent over the past few decades, despite the inescapable…
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Afro-German Literature and Films Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies, Oakland, California 4 two-hour classes Marion Gerlind, Founder and Executive Director This seminar will familiarize students with the history of a minority population in Germany who has gained significant visibility in German media since the 1980s. Having confronted racist stereotyping and media (mis)representations, Black Germans have…
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Indigenous Studies (INST) 370/History (HIST) 370: The Métis (Revision 2) Athabasca University Athabasca, Alberta, Canada INST 370 traces the historical development of Canada’s Métis from the period of the fur trade to the present. It includes discussion and debates about the origins of Métis nationalism, the validity of Métis land claims, and the character of…
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HIST 387 004: Inventing the Nation in Latin America George Mason University Spring 2012 Matt Karush, Associate Professor of History Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Latin Americans have struggled to define themselves and their nations. This quest for identity has involved governments, intellectuals, and artists, but also ordinary men and women. And the results…
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HIST 1133-Mongrel America: Miscegenation, Passing, and the Myth of Racial Purity Cornell University Fall 2012 Racial divisions have served as potent tools for consolidating power, upholding unjust practices, and shaping the American historical imagination. Whether in the form of slavery, segregation, extralegal violence, or the one-drop rule, the insistence on preserving racial distinctions reflects a…