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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Category: Asian Diaspora
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Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’ NBC News 2015-12-31 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Sharon H. Chang’s son with a copy of Kip Fulbeck’s “Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids.” Photograph Courtesy of Sharon H. Chang Scholar and activist Sharon H. Chang’s new book, “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial…
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The Tax Sleuth Who Took Down a Drug Lord The New York Times 2015-12-25 Nathaniel Popper, Wall Street Reporter Gary Alford, a special agent with the I.R.S., pored over old blog posts and chat room logs that led, eventually, to Dread Pirate Roberts. Cole Wilson for The New York Times Gary L. Alford was running…
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When You Grow Up Mixed Race Thought Catalog 2015-12-11 Evicka Chang Growing up mixed-race is confusing. It wasn’t until my third year of University when the theory of hybridity was introduced in a Lit Theory class that I even began to consider the complexities of my own existence. It was also then that I started…
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Mixed Race Experience in Celeste Ng’s EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU GrubStreet 2015-12-01 Sonya Larson Not many characters in literature look like me. Half Chinese and half white, I’m used to reading about people who could occupy one half of my family tree, but rarely about the person who emerges where their branches join. I’m…
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Carolyn Abraham explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy—by cracking the genome of her own family.
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Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.
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Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Rutgers University Press 2015-05-12 256 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7070-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7069-3 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7071-6 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7537-7 Jennifer Ann Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an…
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A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share.