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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A person’s racial or ethnic self-identification can change over time and across contexts, which is a component of population change not usually considered in studies that use race and ethnicity as variables.
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I don’t know why I felt a need to choose. I was only cutting myself in half.
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In South Korea, children of mixed race can be called “mongrels”. But Han Hyun-min didn’t let racism stop him.
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Authors Roshani Chokshi and Renee Ahdieh struggled to identify with the white protagonists of books they read growing up and have written stories that draw on their heritage
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The Discourse of Konketsuji: Racialized Representations of Biracial Japanese Children in the 1950s University of Toronto March 2017 79 pages Zachery Anthony Nelson A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Department of East Asian Studies University of Toronto This study examines textual representations of biracial Japanese children…
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The dynamic frontwoman talks production values, the ‘ugly beautiful’, and why being in ‘the band that almost made it’ is the best thing ever
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Trin Yarborough talked about her book, Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War, published by Potomac Books. She talked about the lives of orphans who weren born to American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
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Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers.
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Many of our family functions centered on moments like these – eating Filipino food while listening to Mexican music, bathing ourselves in the experiences that were for me, the essence of being a Mexipino.