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 and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires Routledge 2012-02-29 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-50429-4 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia This book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India by contrasting Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces. Starting in the sixteenth century,…
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Don’t Call Me Hapa ricepaper: Asian Canadian Arts and Culture Issue 16.3 (Fall 2011) The Hybrid Issue Arron Leaf THERE WAS A MOMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL when I was fascinated with mixed-race identity and the word “Hapa.” Using this Hawaiian term meaning “half” as in “half-white” to describe myself felt empowering, somehow. My mom is…
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The Heart of Hyacinth University of Washington Press 2000 (Originally published in 1903) 288 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Paperback ISBN: paperback (9780295979168 Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) (1875-1954) Introduction by: Samina Najmi, Professor of English California State University, Fresno The Heart of Hyacinth, originally published in 1903, tells the coming-of-age story of Hyacinth Lorrimer, a child…
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Ambivalent passages: racial and cultural crossings in Onoto Watanna’s The Heart of Hyacinth MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring 2009) pages 211-229 DOI: 10.1353/mel.0.0004 Huining Ouyang, Professor of English Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin Appearing in the early fall of 1903 in time for the Christmas season, The Heart of Hyacinth,…
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Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan University Of Hawai‘i Press May 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3344-2 Taku Suzuki, Assistant Professor of International Studies Denison University, Granville, Ohio Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial…
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Olympic Swimmer Neal Built Her Dream in Brooklyn The New York Times 2012-07-15 William C. Rhoden, Sports Columnist Lia Neal (Al Bello/Getty Images) Rome and Siu Neal with their grandson Rome Jin, their son Rome Kyn and his wife Ziggy (Victor J. Blue for The New York Times) Rome Neal walked up to the microphone…