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: Asian Diaspora
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Mixed-race Jewish children locate their communal comfort zone The Jewish Chronicle Online 2009-11-12 Sue Fishkoff Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, was born to a Jewish mother and Chinese father. She was raised Jewish but looks Asian, as does her daughter, nine-year-old Amalia, whose father was also Chinese. The Hebrew School Amalia attends is…
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The Eurasian Face Blacksmith Books November 2010 140 pages 70+ b/w images Bilingual: English/Chinese 20.5 x 31 cm Hardcover ISBN: 978-988-99799-9-7 Kirsteen Zimmern No one represents diversity better than Eurasians—those individuals with a mix of Caucasian and Asian heritage. Once a source of shame, the Eurasian face has become the face that sells. It is…
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Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking 2012-06-12 Hannah Lowe A panelist at ‘2 Nations’, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how…
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Poet to discuss biracialism during UHV/ABR Fall Reading Series University of Houston-Victoria Newswire Victoria, Texas 2012-09-20 Born to a Chinese mother and a Norwegian father, award-winning author Paisley Rekdal’s mixed heritage often influences her poetry and essay writing. She will share her insights about biracialism on Sept. 27 as the second speaker in the University…
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“Intimate” is a hybrid memoir and “photo album” that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America.
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Living in Ambiguity with Carl Olsen Mixed Race Radio 2012-09-05, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Carl Olsen Colorado State Univeristy Carl is a regular guest on Mixed Race Radio and self- identifies as Japanese and White. Originally Carl was going to discuss his experience being marked as white on a traffic…
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“In Michigan, most people identify me as Asian, but here in California, I’m a white guy,” Mark-Griffin said… Chelsea Hawkins, “Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines,” City on a Hill Press: A Student-Run Newspaper (University of California, Santa Cruz), October 20, 2011. http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/10/20/mixed-but-not-divided/
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Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture Volume 4, Number 1 (2004) ISSN 1492-7810 Hsu-Ming Teo, Senior Lecturer and Head of Modern History Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the Raj. It argues that these love stories…